CP5065-2021S1-2A07-GROUP3
PRACTICAL 4 - CARDBOARD GAME
For practical 4, we were tasked on creating a toy that not only will be fun to play, but eye catching for our target audience (Primary 3 and 4 children). We knew that this would not be an easy task as we only had 2 hours to do so on the actual date and communication was a bit harder due to safety distancing measures.
PROTOTYPING
Before the actual date itself, our group decided to test out prototyping the toy that we decided on which was a pin-ball machine at Jonathan's house, we decided to do it on a Tuesday as it was a public holiday and hence everyone was free. During this prototyping session, we noticed that it was a lot harder than we had anticipated, many small errors due to cutting inaccuracies results in mechanisms that are not so rigid or did not work as well as we thought.
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Ultimately this session did serve its purpose on allowing us to prepare items beforehand and allow us to have a certain procedure to follow and be more organized as we would know who would be doing what.
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The image below shows one of the launching mechanisms that we made on the day itself.
ACTUAL DAY
On the actual day itself, we got off on a good start in which we were able to keep on track and everyone was communicating as much as possible while focusing on the task at hand.
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However, somethings didn't go as planned as our product was working fine before the presentation and started to show some issues on how the mechanisms didn't work as it was intended to, so we decided to showcase the side that was working as there was not much we could do at that point of time.
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At the end we had to present our product and explain why it was unique amongst the class and we got 4th place in terms of class voting.
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In the end we were not able to catch a full 30 second video depicting our product for the primary school children to view so we decided to take our product back home to rework on it and take a more accurate video depicting how it should have actually worked.
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Below are some images of us working on the product.
CONCLUSION
Well we definitely had learnt a lot from this, we thought that because we made a prototype beforehand we would have an easier time but sometimes unexpected circumstances occur and we need to learn how to adapt to these situations. This will definitely help us when we make our prototype for our actual chemical product on week 16, for our upcoming presentation on week 17.