Creating a Promotional Display for the Entrance of a Supermarket Store
1 Introduction
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This document supports the design and manufacture of the hardware
coursework for the GCSE Design & Technology course 2004. The aim of
the coursework was to design and make a promotional display for the
entrance of a Supermarket Store to promote a new chocolate bar. My
solution for this problem was to provide an interactive game, which
promotes the new Cadbury's Mye chocolate bar.
Firstly, I generated some initial ideas on how I was going to solve
the problem. From these ideas, I selected one, which was my final
idea. Research was necessary to support the technical parts of my
solution and to help me decide what components to use.
I constructed a design specification, which defined the system and
gave me a boundary to work within. I also constructed this so that at
the end of the project I could look back and see if I had kept to the
specification.
I used subsystems to help me to break down the system. This helped me
to focus on a specific area of the solution at any one time.
These subsystems were combined and tested. The Test Results were
recorded and then evaluated against the Design Specification.
Finally, this document supports three Appendices: Appendix A shows the
resources I used to carry out this project. Appendix B contains some
extra research that I did for future features of the game. Lastly,
Appendix C contains some digital pictures of the mechanisms and
overall construction.
2 design problem
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The manager of a local supermarket has no promotion for the latest
chocolate bar from Cadburys "Mye". He wishes to have a promotional
display at the entrance to his supermarket, to advertise this new bar.
The display must be interactive to the customer therefore it attracts
them to buy the new chocolate bar.
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My solution to the problem is to provide an interactive game, which
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