In deciding which ideas to move forward with, we first narrowed our focus to five design types we brainstormed for last week’s session that we thought were both interesting and feasible within the time constraints of our semester. The designs/design types are:

• Noodles
• Snow Globe
• Space-Ship
• Googly Eye (Minion, Mike Wazowski, etc.)
• Character inside a dome (Sandy, Astronaut, etc.)

Next, we took these designs, and fleshed-out a few details surrounding making the parts for these yo-yo’s. We evaluated the designs on number of parts, perceived complexity, group interest, and design novelty based on the LMP yo-yo.

Criteria	LMP	Noodles	Snow Globe	Spaceship	Googly Eye	Person-in-Dome
Number of Parts	3	4	4-5	4	4	4
Complexity	0	1	2	1	2	2
Interest	0	4	8.5	9	11	8
Novelty	0	1	1	2	2	2

We decided to move forward with the Googly Eye (particularly Minion) and Spaceship designs.

Initial Googly-Eye CAD/Sketches

Initial Spaceship CAD

Our team met today to brainstorm and sketch ideas together. Our ideas seemed to revolve around the following themes:

1. Cartoon Characters
2. Cute Characters
3. Food
4. Music, LEDs, Snow Globes… etc

Here are the sketches from our brainstorming session:

From Left to Right:

Marwa: Marwa is a Course 2 junior hailing all the way from Bahrain. Marwa is very passionate about art, languages, and virtual reality. She speaks four languages (Arabic, English, Japanese, Holi), and in her free time, draws manga/ Japanese comics. Over the past summer, Marwa interned in a leading Japanese gaming company, where she developed a virtual reality game from scratch for Japan’s National Space Agency, JAXA.

Lily: Lily is a Course 2A senior concentrating in product design and development, and minoring in Course 15-1 at Sloan.  Next year she will be working as an instruments design engineer at Intuitive Surgical. She loves all things soccer (playing, watching, discussing!), and is going to France to watch the Women’s World Cup after graduation this summer.

Jonathan: Jonathan is a Course 2 junior minoring in energy studies. He is deeply interested in renewable energy technology, and its implementation around the world. Jonathan loves sports and music, marked by his love of playing hockey and the trumpet.

Ben: Ben is a Course 2. He is interested in electrical and mechanical technology. He likes eating food and sleeping.