Currently I’m working on my capstone project, and one of the tasks I thought to simple ended up becoming a part of the critical path. What I’m talking about is making components stay in place. For context, I’m designing a cast that will measure temperature and swelling in an affected area to help monitor how an individual is healing. One of the aspects of the design that is taking a significant portion of time is simply assembly and making everything as part one system and stay in place. For example, in order to make sure wires are secured, I sewed wires on a gauze under-layer. For other components, such as the arduino, we’ve designed a box to house it in our system. The devil’s in the details, and figuring out something that seemed so trivial and component securement has ended up being a huge part of our critical path. We are constantly thinking of new ideas to optimize the design to secure all of our components in the best way possible.