Testing of Ice Cream Scoop Prototypes (Design Course 5.6)

Okay, it's pretty exciting. Now we get to see how we did with these four prototypes. To do that, I'm going to bring the camera down and focus right in on the ice cream so you can really see the action. All right, I'm just going to take these in turn and make some observations as I

try it out. So, first I'd say this is is not terribly hard ice cream. It's kind of medium hardness. I'm going to start with the uh push and twist, the punch and twist concept. And our idea was that you would push down and then you would twist. And then one thing I notice is I don't

know where the uh back side of the of the uh scoop is. So that's something I'd want to be able to figure out. And quickly I realized that the the plug doesn't it it cuts pretty well, but the ice cream kind of breaks into pieces here. And now I realize I don't have any way

to release this ice cream. And that's clearly going to be an issue here. Uh, so in fact, I got to go off and get a tool or something to release the ice cream. Actually, I think I'm just going to let it sit here because that's going to be clearly going to be a problem. So, the punch works

pretty well and the, you know, it it removes the right chunk. It doesn't release very well. Okay, the next scoop is the uh ball cutter. The the one that spins and cuts the ball. So the idea was thread thread it in twist it and pull out. And one of the things you notice is the ice cream tears. And so

it's it's it's instead of cutting it appears that it it's not terrible, but the ice cream tends to fracture in the cavity. Okay. So, that's two. All right. The idea here was that we would uh we'd push this down and then we'd press here.