Donation box prototypes
I have begun to plan and design some aspects of the marble run window of my interactive donation box. There are two main aspects i have been focusing on so far are, ways to lift the marbles back to the starting point and different track elements for on the way down. For both of these i have begun the construction of cardboard prototypes.
Marble lift
There are a few different methods that are used to lift marbles, the main ones being screw based or disk based, i have decided that it would be much easier to go with the disk design as it would be much easier to manufacture out of predominantly wood
This video shows my prototype, the final version will have 5 of the wheels and gears to keep the wheels in sync
Track Elements
For my cardboard prototypes it is very difficult to produce any shape with much of a curve, so i have focused on the moving elements of the track. These designs are based off many other marble runs on youtube. This setup is designed to be the elements that will fill one side of the display. In the final version there will be more simple and decorative elements such as spirals and twists to connect the moving elements.
I will hopefully have some more videos of prototypes up in the next few weeks as i work on them.
Youtube – Think Quick V4
I noticed how many views the video of my first program was getting and decided i should put up a video of one of the newer versions of think quick, so here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmtTHkNd_Q0
It shows off more of the programs features for improveing accuracy and its ablility to repetitively enter rounds, answer a certain number of questions and then strike out and repeat.