The Perfect Shot Week 3

The 4 strategies above depict the strategies our team came up with, as well as means to complete the strategy with a desired impact of scaling sports to better suit children and their biometric data

This paper is pros and cons of  the three means to accomplish the strategies we felt were best. Note the + are pros and the - are cons.

Ultimately we decided the best course of action would be to blend a mixture of strategies to best accomplish scaling a sports to better suite children and ensure they are playing in a safe manner with the proper form.

The strategies we choose to blend are to better scale the ball of the desired sports circumference and change the internal gas to a Nitrogen or Helium to save weight. Additional data will be needed to see if the weight saved is negligible and what the impact would be on the trajectory of the ball. Moreover, we want to create a fully adjustable hoop were height, width, and width of the rim can be adjusted for the  sport of Basketball. To cut cost we would like the mechanism to attach to pre-existing backboards to save cost to the desired organization. This would allow children from various age groups to play in a manner that would be optimal to their Biometric data. 

Above is a rough sketch of possible means to accomplish the strategy our team would like to move forward in the design process with. Additional concepts will be added and worked on in the following blog. 

Scaling factors that we are taking into consideration are:

• Height
• Average Strength (extremities)
• Hand width and length
• Foot Size
• Hand-eye coordination
• Throwing and Kicking distance
• Mental Capacity
• Attention Span