Week 6 Update

This week we started making designs for our project. We used an iPad to accomplish these feats. We first made a design of the current method to transport the heavy loads which can be seen in Figure 1 below.

Figure 1: Current Method [1]

We looked at designs for hiking backpacks, that we could use in our design.

Figure 2: Front-Side Backpack [5]

We also made a preliminary Pro/Engineering sketch of our prototype backpack frame, which can be seen in Figure 3 below.

Figure 3: PVC Backpack Frame [14]

We accomplished our tasks for this week of starting our design. Next week we plan to make finish our design concept so we can then move forward to building our prototype.