My mother teaches infants and used to occasionally go into her school with her. While there, I helped her and watched the children as they were being taught. I soon became aware of some of the problems the children were having in learning to write properly. I felt that a pupil-controlled aid to writing was needed, and that this was an opportunity for me to design and build a system that would: hold the pupils' attention, be safe to use without supervision, not be too expensive, help overcome this learning difficulty, save the teacher's time, and be a good project for my GCSE Technology.