The Vinci BoxAncient Works

Design by Jackson Wilt, Roscoe Beitel, and Jacob Birdwell

EF 152 Spring 2017

4/7/2017

Team #18

Target Customer

✣ This puzzle would be available to children of any gender and all

ages. More than likely this will be targeted to children in their

teens.

✣ The targeted market will also be to those who are curious about

puzzles.

✣ Because of the puzzle’s simple yet difficult solution, it became a

primary idea for our toy.

Conceptual Design❖ Leonardo da Vinci

➢ created a ball bearing puzzle

➢ 2 balls on opposite sides❖ Our initial design

➢ 4 balls➢ Open, circular playing

field

Actual Design

Marketing Video

Customer Feedback and Results

✣ TA⨳ “I never thought of

that!”✣ 3 students

⨳ “Wow that was cool!”

✣ 5 year-old⨳ Could not solve it.

✣ Center piece split by screw due to it being brittle particle board.⨳ Can be replaced

with wood.✣ Due to the 5 year-old

that couldn’t solve it, we bumped up the age level to 10 year-olds and up.

Cost and Time Estimates

Prototyping cost: $6.35

For 1000 units: $6350

Retail price: $11.99

Profit for 1000 units =$5640

Took approximately 37.5 man-hrs to make the prototype.

Conclusion

✣ Puzzle was very successful for it’s purpose.⨳ TA and all students agreed it was worth playing.

✣ However our age group had to be bumped upwards due to difficulty.

✣ Puzzle can be improved by replacing the center piece with another material.