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Extendable Garden Shears

     This is an action project for my core class Design and Engineering. During this unit, we have learned about many things. Such as tools, finding volume/surface area, and empathy. More specifically, we have learned about gardening tools and how they can be effective. For this project, we were tasked with finding a specific garden tool and trying to innovate it. We were supposed to design it towards the elderly and how we can make the tool easier to use for them. I teamed up with my brother and together we came up with a design that can help elderly people use tools more effectively. In order to start this project, we needed to find a tool that would help elderly people. We went to Home Depot to learn about all the types of garden tools there are. We even interviewed people to find out what tool would need to be redesigned. In my interview, they said "Shears or my favorite tool," and in a different interview, they said "shears or good but i wish they were longer." So that inspired our design. We also needed to learn more about empathy. What is empathy? Empathy is the feeling you get when you see someone struggling but you understand what is happening. We learned about different examples talking about how empathy is effective in design, so we came up with our design, "Extendable Garden Shears." In order to show our new product, we created a storyboard to show how our design can be useful.



    As you can see in the storyboard above, our tool is much more effective than the other kinds of shears. It is able to extend past the normal length of other shears. It is able to get to those hard to reach places that an elderly person using normal shears wont be able to reach. 

    Our tool is classified as a wedge because the blade has a sharp edge. It is also classified as a lever due to the open and closing motion of the shears. In the picture below, it shows the parts of our tool and the vectors explaining the input and output of the tool.


CJH/Vectors of Garden Shears/2020
CJH/Parts of Garden Shears/2020


Finally I have a picture of the surface area and volume of the handle of the Extendable Shears.

CDH/Volume/Surface area of Handle/2020


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