Prototyping the new design

We started prototyping our new design and soon found it to be challenging due to the lack of materials and resources supporting the design. We used cardboards, plastic and wood but each had some problems.

After a lot of research and visiting many stores it became obvious that we have a big challenge ahead to build a gum ball like machine without much resources and limited time frame.

We started thinking of new shapes that can be easily supported in the limited time and resources. Our goal was to be able to find material that can be easily available. Our design changed again, see the two 3d drawings (done in Google Sketchup) below in this post. Once we did these drawings we started to look for materials and ready made material to support our design.