Nifty Lifting Machine Report Questions Use complete sentences to answer the questions. Explain what knowledge was gained when creating the prototype of the nifty lifting machine. When creating the prototype, the group noticed a few errors. The first idea of a wheel and axel did not work, and the wheel and axel was not stable and fell apart. What the group had to do with the wheel and axel was to make the wheel and axel stable by making a whole new base, which the group did. The knowledge the group gained from the prototype was to make the machine as stable as possible, which was not the main intention until the problem occurred. How was knowledge gained from the prototype applied in the design of the final product? The knowledge that the group gained from the prototype was to keep the machine as stable as possible. When the group first started on the prototype, the prototype kept falling over, so the group took that knowledge and used the knowledge for the simple machine. The simple machine was not working up to the standards that the group liked, so the group used that knowledge to figure out what the group could do to fix the machine. The wheel and axel was unstable and hard to work with, so the group totally recreated the wheel and axel by having a better center of mass, so that the wheel and axel would not wobble. …show more content…
(can be first person) The ideas, labor, and materials were divided equally between Alex and I. For the ideas, we discussed our ideas and then we talked about them and decided which would work the best. Labor and materials were also divided equally. I built the first main structure, then Alex made the base and the wheel and axel. For the supplies, I brought in everything for the main structure and Alex brought in the base, weight and supplies for the wheel and axel. Which simple machines were incorporated into the nifty lifting