Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering

Product: Calculator

Targeted Audience: 10 year olds and older

Feedback: I thought the reversed engineering project was cool because it was very interesting to me, to see what was inside of the calculator

Reverse engineering is going backwards in the design process starting from the end to the beginning. Instead of putting something together it’s being taken apart. Reverse engineering is produced in this industry to find out what certain things are built from, and how they operate. Forward engineering is going forward in the design process from beginning to end. They are different because one starts from the beginning, and the other starts from the end. Loyal customers can have discounts while gaining new customers because they are counted on.

The criteria’s and constraints of my team’s product were to take apart a calculator, and put it back together with changes made to it. We had to better the calculator to make it from economical materials for anyone to use. It had to be in three different colors to accommodate the interests of males and females. My colors were red, green, and blue. The price range had to be $24.99. The criteria assisted me with developing the new product by showing me what I could and couldn’t do, what I had to do, and how I had to do it. The screen required an upgrade. In the process, I sketched the front, side, and back views of the calculator on to engineering grid paper. Then, I took the calculator apart, took out all of the components and identified them, and I sketched them on to engineering grid paper. And lastly, I used engineering grid paper to sketch my new product.

I thought the reversed engineering project was cool because it was very interesting to me, to see what was inside of the calculator. I learned a lot of new things out of this project that I didn’t know before. It was fun designing my own calculator, and making it better. I like reversed engineering, and I want to do another project like that again.