Mechanisms!

 

Friday 21st July 2023                                                                                              D&T: Push and Pull

Mechanisms Designing and Making

To complete our last Design and Technology topic for the year, over the last few days we have been looking at mechanisms. We did lots of experimentation with different mechanisms to help us decide which ones we were going to use for our final designs. 

 Some of us opted for lever mechanisms for our cards whereas others had created linkage or slider mechanisms. We had some amazing and creative ideas!













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