Within design, there are three main adjectives: Fast, Cheap, or Good. You can only have two. Because I wanted a product that was good within a tight budget, I had to sacrifice Fast, and in turn, the project's timeline was much longer than I first imagined. This is derived from two facts: my lack of tools at home and the prototype process (link). I had to commonly bring my pieces to school and schedule days where I could fabricate the parts I needed, which significantly hindered my process. I fully believe that my timeline would be cut in half if I were in an environment much closer and accessible to a machine shop, such as a college setting. Overall, the prototypes were necessary in allowing me to understand the design boundaries and made designing the final design at a much faster pace.