Challenges and Successes of Designing Educational Resources Around My Product

The product I am creating is a wearable device that contains an accelerometer  to detect the horizontal, vertical, and rise/fall speed of a patient which causes the buzzer, and rgb lights to come on to prevent a fall.  The challenges of designing a product to be used as an educational resource were meeting the deadlines for  building the prototype, getting it to work properly, testing the product in order to  make a more efficient prototype.  Our project idea did not allow us to meet specific deadlines which took away the time I could have used to brainstorm tasks for a lesson.  Most our time was spent programming the arduino lilypad to work with the accelerometer and buzzer.  Although my group had some experience with C plus programming, we needed work time to get this activity done. Soon after creating our prototype with a working accelerormeter;  I was able to see how the data was collected and immediately saw how I could incorporate this design into a Mathematics lesson.  I was able to easily create a lesson around product by using the data collected from the accelerometer. However, after designing the lesson, I realized I had have to create a handout for a teacher and students that provide detailed instructions that would allow them to experience the same successes I did.  Again the biggest challenge I had with this overall experience was TIME .  However, I am still working to ensure this product and educational resources are effective lesson design that teachers could easily use; although my internship has ended.  I have contact information of engineers in the ASSIST program at NCSU that could help if I needed further assistance!