Reverse Engineering Project

Our Task:

For this project we had to choose one object we broke apart out of our tablegroups, then analyze the parts of this object while it was broken apart. This process would be reverse engineering. My group decided that we would reverse engineer a small bluetooth speaker. To analyze our object we focused on manufacturing, how it functions, materials, and how it is all built to work together. Although we worked on our break it apart challenges individually, we are now working as teams to do this project and work with others. Throughout the whole project time, we added to our gantt chart and updated it as we went along. This helped us manage time and manage our work. Our team analyzing the bluetooth speaker was just the right amount of difficulty and and challenging for us to understand it.

To start we came up with a hypothesis, what we wanhted to improve upon and upgrades for the speaker. After deciding this we analyzed how the speaker already functions and each part to it, we drew sketches to visualize this as well. We did research to find what each part was made out of, what it costs to build and construct, and whether others have done similar research to what we are doing. We also researched what each bit of the parts cost, such as wires, types of metals, etc. We did all of this research and tried to determine if our hypothesis was something we could prove true. After doing all of this work we put what we know and have found onto a report and a presentation to show our findings.

Evidence of Work

Our report and presentation of research and findings are below. These include our research, sketches, and all the other pieces of this project. Presentation (left) and report (right).

Content:

Reverse Engineering: the reproduction of another manufacturer's product following detailed examination of its construction or composition.

Functional Analysis: analyzes the function of different parts of an object and how they work together, as well as the underlying scientific principles behind their functioning.

Structural Analysis: analyzes how each part of the object is connected to another and how they interact with one another to hold each part in place.

Material Analysis: analyzes the materials used, their properties, and the reasoning behind why manufacturers specifically chose to use these materials for the object.

Manufacturing Analysis: analyzes how and where the object was made, as well as the methods that were used to make it.

Gantt Chart: a chart in which a series of horizontal lines shows the amount of work done or production completed in certain periods of time in relation to the amount planned for those periods.

Motherboard: a printed circuit board containing the principal components of a computer or other device, with connectors into which other circuit boards can be slotted.

Battery: a container consisting of one or more cells, in which chemical energy is converted into electricity and used as a source of power,

Bluetooth: a standard for the short-range wireless interconnection of mobile phones, computers, and other electronic devices.

Bill of Materials: A bill of materials or product structure is a list of the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components, parts, and the quantities of each needed to manufacture an end product.

Innovation: Process of improving or modifying an existing product.

Invention: Design work that results in something unique or novel.