Day 2: Research Part 1: Requirements & Exploration — Creative Engineering with Mark Rober

Research Phase = Pick Requirements

Engineers are planners and problems solvers. Breaking a problem down into its basics allows them (us) to build way more complicated and awesome things.

Research Phase

We are on the R phase of the BRPF engineering process. Remember the mnemonic, Big, Robots, Pop, Footballs or

1. Brainstorm
2. Research — we are here
3. Prototype
4. Final Build

Requirements

Break it down

Take your problem and break it down to bite size chunks. What are all the things it has to do / accomplish?

These are called requirements or constraints.

Requirements = constraints.

Constraints breed creativity.

Example requirements: NASA Mars Rover requirements.

1. 10 instruments.
2. Has to withstand X amount of shaking.