Week 9: Challanges

As we are preparing for gateway review 3, we are finding that our next biggest challenge will be fitting all of our components needed for completing our circuit and generator, all inside our iPhone case. We are also a little concerned with how we will make the plastic component of our iPhone case that will also hold all of the components. If we decide to use injection molding, manufacturing the mold case will be be both difficult and expensive. we will have to make the mold out of a single piece of aluminum and this could also result in insufficient tolerances and precision. Our other option is to 3-D print the part. However, this could result in an unreliable and imprecise case. Nonetheless, manufacturing our housing, and ensuring that all of our components fit inside of it, will be a big challenge, but critical to the success of our project.