Element L

With our cart finished there were a few things that could have been improved upon and looking back, these are a few of the things we would have done if given more time or resources towards our project: 

• Weight reduction of the cart, as proposed by many of the people to see and use the cart, the overall weight could have been far lighter to make the product actually viable, this could have been achieved with a change in the material to something lighter and easier to move like aluminum, or a reduction through the removal of material from the existing cart, such as cutting out areas to cut down on the overall weight of the project.

• Ease of use, the handle was a tad high for some people to be able to use the cart effectively and the actual loading technique was a tad clunky and inefficient, and further testing could have been done to find a superior method or design that would facilitate easier loading and unloading of the cart.

• Safety, the overall safety of our cart could always be improved, such as adding locking wheels that stop rolling in the event that the handle was released or adding yellow tape around edges that would be easy to get hit or caught on, otherwise dulling the carts sides and making the wheels sturdier as proposed by some of our judges would likely increase the safety of our cart for the students who would use it.

Ultimately we have decided that with the current design of the cart that we would not continue to pursue it further such as filing for a patent and continuing to develop the design further until it would be a usable and competitive product on the market, instead we opted that with us going on to pursue college that we would leave the cart as it was design-wise and disassemble the physical cart before leaving the cour