I know this is still just a prototype, but I worry it will not be robust enough as is. Remember that people are going to be torquing on this nearly constantly every day. I'd also be weary of finger traps along the edges.

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Bouncing light games are fun - you're going to want to go with a very focus-able beam light source.

The more times you bounce the light, the more diffuse the beam will become. So it has to start very crisp to keep it from being a wall washer by the time it ends. The more diffuse the beam, the less light it carries to the end point.

I would also recommend that you have enough light sources to prevent the game from being broken in a 'worst case' smudge scenario on the mirrors. (Smudge-ageddon? Smudge-ocalypse? Smudge-narok?)

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I think a very vital question that I wish you had answered with the sketch model is this: how badly affected is the reflection of light when there are finger prints and smudges on the mirror itself? There is almost no way around the mirrors getting smudged, so how do you mitigate for that?

What was the specific question you were attempting to answer with your model?

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While I think that an omni-directional mirror challenge is a good one to tackle with a sketch model, I think I would have liked to have seen a more complex part of this room sketch modeled to get a sense for limitations in that area. The unsteady rocks on the ground might be hard to make! While rotational mirrors are well-understood, random and tipsy rocks may not be. Definitely a good concept to understand from the get-go for the light aspects of the room though!

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The concept explored makes sense because it's important to find out if the adjustable mirror is possible with a good number of degrees of freedom.

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Well done! This is a great concept model, and I think that it provides a lot of valuable information on form and functionality. I think that with more durable materials and heavy duty hardware, this will work great.

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Robust, simple, unbreakable. You didn't over complicate it for the sake of over complicating it. You thought about pinch points, you thought about controlling the range of travel. I dig it.

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The execution of the model itself worked well! Its a nice idea to put it in a frame in order to constrain the manipulation of the mirror. However, I think there are other questions that would have been great to answer at this point in the process in order to make design decisions moving forward (see above).

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I think the execution here is very good. You have a simple concept for creating the omni-directional mirror tilting and executed it very well with sketch model materials. I don't know what I would personally change! Attempting a couple other methods might be nice, but definitely not necessary for this assignment!

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It looks pretty well put together. My concern is the strength of the magnetism. How would you prevent the mirror from falling out? There would have to be some sort of boundary or extra mechanism. But this is a good start!

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