During the process of design, my group and I neglected to spent enough time designing. Everything went well, till it was time to make the water wheel. In all the design pictures, we drew a water wheel

but did not plan on how to build one. This is because it seemed like such a simple idea that we skipped over designing the water wheel and work on the other portions of the mechanism that needed to be designed. To fix this, each group should have had to plan out how each piece of the system would have to be obtained or build. This would have made us pay more attention to detail.

 

 

To help the future students of the core get more out of this project, I would suggest having each group analyze whether there machine would have been practical for the people of early America. In their videos, have them discuss this topic and decide how it could have been even more manageable for the people then.