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Communicate with your group and take a lot of photos. Even if you're last-minute crunching on the project, it's so nice to look back at all the photos throughout the design process. Start the final project early. Everyone has a million things to do before finals and working on it last minute will just cause problems you won't have time to fix.
Future
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For future iterations, we thought back to our initial design proposal and how we had to focus the scope of our project from the entire noodle-making process to just noodle-pulling. In the future, we would like to introduce further mechanisms and out-of-planar movement to add the twisting and unhooking process to the mechanism. As we were designing this for a culinary audience, we would like to make the electronics less visible which would involve an electronics box and possibly creating a second layer under the table to protect everything.
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