Marble Sorter

Teammates: Quinn, Lauren, and Connor

Organize it!: Title your post and organize it by section in a logical manner. 

Cha-Ching Cha-Ching!!

Brainstorm!: Provide at least four of your team’s brainstorming ideas for the design solution. This should include brainstorming sketches. Each sketch should include labels and descriptions for communication.

CAD!: 
Use our Inventor CAD software to model a prototype or your final design. Post screenshots of your model.

Enter the Matrix: Evaluate your solution ideas (4 minimum) using a decision matrix. Determine the best solution to the problem. Explain your rating system and share insight on why you rated your solutions as you did.




 
Design solution: Create a detailed pictorial sketch or use 3D modeling software to document the best solution, based upon your team’s decision matrix. Your sketch or 3D model should include a rationale for the design ted as the final design solution. Each sketch should include labels and descriptions for communication.

Reflection: In our teams experience of building and programming the marble sorter what went well was the process in which we built and then programmed the hardware. We were very efficient in putting together a solution to the task and to any problems we encountered. We also quickly made the program for the marble sorter in a timely manner. What went wrong was the the program was never without flaw. There was constantly a problem in the encoding that we needed to solve.

Product Achievements:
Sorting Speed (15 marbels total: at least 3 different types):
Process 15 marbles in less than 2:00 minutes. 
Process 15 marbles in less than 1:45 minutes.
Process 15 marbles in less than 1:30 minutes.
Process 15 marbles in less than 1:15 minutes.
Process 15 marbles in less than 1:00 minute.
Process 15 marbles in less than 45 seconds.
Process 15 marbles in less than 30 seconds.


Marble Sorting (Must sort at least 3 types. More than 3 types earns you a multiplier on your Sorting Speed achievements):
Sort 4 marble types = 2 x earned Sort Speed Achievements.
Sort 5 marble types = 3 x earned Sort Speed Achievements


Marble Delivery (may use non-fischertechnik materials to create a "hopper" to drop marbles into for "Drop" achievements):
Drop marbles from 6" above machine 
Drop marbles from 1' above machine
Drop marbles from 2' above machine