Objective
The objective of this project was to go through the process of thinking of an idea and designing it using engineering knowledge we have learned over the four years of our college life.
Concept Generation
The concept for a poker chip sorter came from multiple steps of concept generation and evaluation. First, each team member brought five different ideas to the group. Then the group voted on the ideas and narrowed it down to three. Then the three ideas were mildly pursued in terms of feasibility and market possibilities. Then one of the ideas was gotten rid of and the remaining two were chosen for creation of sketch models to pursue the feasibility of their size and use. In the end, the group chose the poker chip sorter for its balance of electronics and mechanical components.
Functional Requirements
The objective of this project was to go through the process of thinking of an idea and designing it using engineering knowledge we have learned over the four years of our college life.
Concept Generation
The concept for a poker chip sorter came from multiple steps of concept generation and evaluation. First, each team member brought five different ideas to the group. Then the group voted on the ideas and narrowed it down to three. Then the three ideas were mildly pursued in terms of feasibility and market possibilities. Then one of the ideas was gotten rid of and the remaining two were chosen for creation of sketch models to pursue the feasibility of their size and use. In the end, the group chose the poker chip sorter for its balance of electronics and mechanical components.
Functional Requirements
- Sort up to six different colors of chips
- Hold fifty chips for each color
- Hold fifty chips in the magazine
- Sort one chip in three seconds or less
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Critical Functions Model Results
- The machine was able to tell the chip color correctly 100% of the time
- The chip would get jammed, or not make it into the cart, 1 in 10 times
- The range of speed to sort a chip went from 2 seconds to 8 seconds.
- The machine was able to tell the chip color correctly 90% of the time
- A error in a resistor value is at fault for this, if corrected it would be 100% again
- The jamming became less frequent in the cart
- Estimated at 1 in 20 has an issue with the cart
- The range of speed to sort a chip went from 2.5 seconds to 3.6 seconds.
- A tighter range, the lower bound increased due to the magazine feeding mechanism takes some time
Left to Right:Jake Rosen, Christopher Schaffer, Stephanie Solstez, Ryan Cisko, Matt Heinzel