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Problem
The proposed project was to analyse and improve in any way a tool that was given by the teachers, which in my case was a hammer.
Process
The project began by analysing the evolution through history and market options of the tool. The research about the different innovations that were already on the market got a lot of importance due to the objective of the product, to innovate on the tool.Once the transportation of the tool was defined as the main problem, the concept development began, with many prototypes and different solutions generated to solve the proposed problem.
Solution
The project resulted in a portable hammer 26 cm long and 3 cm in diameter, with a single cut that serves as a cut for the axis of rotation of the head.The hammer is made of carbon steel, ideal for tools that need to be resistant to shocks and extreme work such as hammers. While the handle is made with wood in order to give the tool a better grip, and to make the head heavier for a better strength appliance
Learnings
Since the project was a real success during my time at university, I kept working on it, to the point of patenting it to be able to present it to design competitions. All with the objective of getting the attention of tools manufacturers to keep developing. But the reallity was that I missed a key point of the project, the end user needs. It turned out that even though the transportation of the hammer in the toolbox is a problem, the end user wasn’t interested at all on a modern hammer with questionable functionality, and prefered to keep using the unconfortable to ransport but simple and unbreakable traditional design of the hammer