The Perfect Shot Semester 2 Week 2

Our team voted last week on the trailer hitch design as our new build moving forward. This design consist of separate rims, a standard size rim (18 ") used by ages 11+ , a medium rim (22 ") used by ages 8-10, and a large rim (24 ") used by ages 4-7. This design can be easily interchanged by sliding the new rim over the protruding post from the backboard and secured by a pin.

Our team created a blueprint for the design and traveled to a local metal supply company called Industrial Metal Supply in Riverside, CA. The employees were helpful in pointing us to the recommended metals and we searched for all the pieces we would need to construct both steel and aluminum models. an inventory list was made, however there were some discrepancies with what was physical available and what was represented on their website. To solve this problem a couple of hours was dedicated to working with the employees through a telephone call and a custom work order was created. This work order was submitted to CBU for order. We are currently waiting for approval and will check on the status prior to Wednesday. 

The top image reflects our team inventory sheet based on our trip to Industrial Metal Supply. The bottom image shows the work order that was received by Industrial Metal Supply and was turned into CBU

Steps for manufacturing was created to ensure anyone can follow them and create our design. Additionally, this document will be used by our team during the manufacturing process. Also, we met with Wes in our machine shop to see if the school had the capabilities and equipment to help us when needed in the manufacturing process. We reached out to an additional resource to help us with welding the pieces once obtained as a contingency plan. The steps for manufacturing the Aluminum and Steel models are listed below:

We began brainstorming what other sports are concepts and data would best fit outside of Basketball. We believe Volleyball would be a good candidate. The height data could be applied to the height of the height of the net and the court size could be scaled to targeted age ranges. Additionally, the same anthropometric data could be utilized in adjusting the ball size to targeted age groups.

Soccer would be a good fit as well. The field size could be scaled to targeted age groups and the size of the goal. Additional anthropometric data would need to be gathered for the foot sizes at different age groups to properly scale ball sizes to each age group. It would be a good idea to gather the average running speed to scale the field size and amount of players on the field at one time.

Tennis would be similar to Volleyball where the hand size to racket size ratio could be scaled to fine a tennis racket that would best fit each age group. Proper racket size could reduce overuse injuries such as Tennis elbow. The court size could be scaled to different age groups using different color tape that corresponds to different age groups. Moreover, the court size could be scaled based on the average height.

Football and Rugby would be more expensive to scale to fit the different age groups. A goal post could be scaled for each age groups average height. However, to scale an adjustable goal post would be expensive and difficult to adjust quickly. the size of the field could be marked by different colored pain on the field. The ball size could be scaled to better fit the hands of children to improve carrying form.