1st Quarter = ACCOMPLISHED!

Yehey! One quarter down and three more to go. Well we're happy we're finished with the ball sorter and can now move on to another innovative artefact. Testing = CHECK and Blog = CHECK. Now we are surely excited for the next design we're going to create.....

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Final Look

Evaluation

         Our artefact does meet the design brief and the evaluation criteria. Only that in the testing of our design we got a score of 4/10. And while the testing is going on we’ve observed the flaws and correct aspects on our artefact. One thing we have observed is that it depends on one thing for it to sort accurately. And that is the rate of pouring the balls into the sorter. If it is poured all at once, one marble is mixed with the pingpong balls. Though there are circumstances that even though put fast it sorts efficiently. We found out that the solution to our problem is by pouring the balls slowly or one by one. Because if the rate of a marble/ marbles is fast, it will not go under the track we made where they should go to separate from the pingpong balls.Also while testing, our friends, Rolly and Matthew told us that maybe if we made the holes or spaces of our track smaller/thinner, it would’ve sorted better.

           For us the best feature of the sorter is the sorting mechanism /the tracks. It is the cream of the crop. It’s the sorter in the first place, it wouldn’t be a ball sorter without it. And also because it’s done neatly and unexpectedly sorts the balls smoothly.

            The least satisfactory feature will be the entrance of the balls located on the roof. It is too small and pouring will be quite difficult. We actually planned to have a some type of vent instead of just a hole but our time was cut short. So that is the feature that could’ve been much improved. Also the tubes after the track, it was just done quickly so we think it could’ve been done more nicely.

             But overall, the sorter is quite satisfying. Not purely satisfying because it kind of disappoints us that it still depends on a thing for it to sort accurately. But besides that we are proud of our design. It is neat, clean and even has wheels which makes it easy to transfer and is also lightweight so it’s really portable. So JilaNd Incorporated is happy with the finished product.

          

Progress Chart

Production Plan

Step	Procedure/Materials	Tools/Equipment	Risk	Time
The base  of the  Artefact	Piece of plywood to be cut into a certain size and wheels will be added at the bottom	Screwdriver,Saw,Screws	Wheels might keep falling from the wood	2 hrs
The bins	Illustration board to be cut into sides with a certain size and be made into a bin by assembling the sides. Tape will be used to assemble them.	Cutter,scissors,ruler	Sides may not be equal so bins may not fit perfectly on the sorter	1 hr
The walls (side,front, back)/ exterior	Illustration boards will be cut into specific sizes and these ‘walls’ will be assembled by sticking them to the base of course upwards like walls and painted with a design using poster paint and spray paint	Glue gun,cutter, paint brush,ruler	Walls may not be cut perfectly to their size so the design will look messy	2 days
The sorting mechanism/ interior	Illustration boards and chipboards will be cut into tracks and tubes. Also into stands/posts to hold stable the tracks since it’s elevated and one for the side wall(right) since it’s thin. Tape is used for assembly and for the stands.	Glue gun, cutter, ruler, scissors	Elevation might not be right and balls may not pass through smoothly as we have planned	3 days
Roof of  our design	Illustration board will be cut into a certain size and be put on top of the walls. Also a hole will be cut on one corner to have an entrance for the balls if going to sort	Cutter, ruler, Glue gun	Walls may not be stable enough to hold up the roof and the roof may not be cut to its certain size accordingly	30 mins

Tools and Equipment

•   Scissors
•   Cutter
•   Glue Gun
•   Saw
•   Rulers
•   Screwdriver
•   Screws
•   Paintbrush

Cutting List

Day 11: Finishing Interior/Sorting Tracks

                  

Working Drawing

Day 10: Assembly of Interior and Finishing the Exterior

 Our sorter 

Putting together the interior and adding finishing touches to exterior

Exterior look

Unfinished interior look

Design Ideas and Preferred Option

                

         BRAIN STORMING DESIGN IDEAS

Preferred Option:

   

The bus design because our design for the interior suits it better than the robot design. It is simpler and portability is better.

And here is the complete sketch of our design (with the interior).As you can see the bins, which are like the luggage area, go perfectly to where our interior design sorts the balls therefore achieving our goal to design an efficient ball sorter.

Day 9: Creating the Interior and Assembly of Exterior

Making the bins

Applying the design for interior

Putting altogether the exterior

Evaluation Criteria

Right, before the Investigation part here's the evaluation criteria and we also added something to the considerations

Day 8: Renewed Ideation Technique and Start of Making New Design

Since we changed our exterior design, the ideation technique will be revised too. This is it:

NOTE: (we have no documentation for this day)

Investigation

Here are some examples of ball sorters we found on the web:

I like this design because it's not too complicated and  looks accurate. 

Now the design of this one looks nice. Small but what I like about it is that it's  neat and looks like it does its main purpose very well

This one's not actually a ball sorter, it is a paper sorter. But this design helped us to think of ours. It looks clean as well as simple.

Source: Google Images

Day 7: Sort of Change of Plans

Since we found a flaw in our old exterior design, we decided to change it to something we know the design of our sorter will fit better and so that our materials will still come to use.

So this is the new Exterior design. The inside will be the same as before.

Day 6: Continuation of Making the Artefact and Ideation Technique

             

Jiela and Andrew are continuing the ball sorter while Nadine is sketching the Ideation Technique

Day 5: Finalizing Exterior Design

Using MS Paint

Day 4: Prototype

Creating

 

Testing

Day 3: 3D Model

Drawing of the 3D Model

Output:

Day 2: Brainstorming

Planning/Sketching of the design...

The Output:

Day 1: Planning

The Design Process

So far, here's what we've been up to.....

                               

The Marking Scheme

Here's the marking scheme for the Ball Sorter:

JilaNd Inc.

Hello! We are the members of JilaNd Inc. And this is our blog for our Artifact, "Ball Sorter". In this website, we will show you what we do and how we do it. So wait and witness our journey in JilaNd Inc.....