Our team’s progress within the last 7 days has been creating a strong mobile base, as well a structure that gives more height to our device. The greatest success was definitely the attachment of the wheels, which are also able to lock in place. Ropah did the drilling in the wood, which I was so impressed by. It took a couple tries, but they are secure and can move in any direction without running into each other. In terms of height and the top piece, while we were waiting for our scooter, we put this old bike part on top of our stand. The goal was to see how tall we need the stand to be to accomodate for a child.
Since this prototype, we received the scooter, deconstructed it, measured the tubing, and found out what size tube we needed to order. We’re still in the process of figuring out the physics behind how the rod will react to the force of the arrow being shot. For the second design review tomorrow I am definitely a bit nervous since we haven’t decided how to attach the scooter parts. We’re going to focus on the stand for the adjustable vertical rod, which will hopefully support the entire device from the force of the shot arrow and not send the device backwards.
I feel excited to present it to our community partner and get feedback on our sketch idea. It will be nice to get feedback before we advance further in case certain aspects are not working or meeting certain needs.
(PICTURED: Refined prototype, not functional prototype)
Wow, great job attaching the wheels. I can’t believe you guys deconstructed a scooter! I wonder how safe the scooter idea will be? But I love where this is going.
Really excited to see where this goes! You guys have made a lot of progress from your initial sketch, I am really impressed how the iterations are scaling to size!