Edible Balance Project

By Arthur Green, Carina Rojas, Sean Sharp, and

Jose Duran
Team JACS

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Design Objectives

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 Design Objectives
● Design Freely Movable Scale

● Fully Recyclable Materials

● Accurate and Precise

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 COnstraints

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Weight Safety Time

Weighed items
All Materials used
must remain
must be safe for Deadlines
between 1-100
consumption
grams

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 Criteria

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Recyclable
Precision Accuracy materials
How well the How close the All materials must
measurement can measured value be recyclable in the
be repeated for compares to the form of
same object actual value consumption

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dESIGNS AND dECISIONS

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 Base
The edible material: Homemade Rice
Krispies

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Support/Pillar
The edible material: Sugar
Wafers

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Support/Pillar

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 Beam and pivot
BEAM COMPONENT:
The edible material: Banana
Alternative: Celery or Churro

PIVOT COMPONENT:
The edible material: Candy Cane
Alternative: Stick candy or Pocky

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 String and bowls
STRING:
The edible material: Gummy String
Alternative: Cucumber noodles

BOWLS:
The edible material: Chocolate Bowls
Alternative: Baked Tortilla

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 Adhesive

BEAM COMPONENT:
The edible material: Nutella
Alternative: Peanut Butter or Melted Sugar

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 Testing
Objective- Construct prototype of edible
balance by parts

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 testing- Challenges of the project

Strong edible items Adhesive to stick

food items

Accurate
Good design
measurements

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 PROJECT performance

Prototype pros Prototype cons

- Strong structure
- Adhesive could be
problematic
- Easy to replicate
- Not visually attractive

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 Prototype 1
Overall, sound prototype, but will
need readjustments

(there are still more parts to constructed)

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 Adjustments and
improvements
- Search for better adhesive
alternative
- Polish the design

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Future plans
- Construct missing components of
prototype
- Assemble and test prototype
- Observe for any issues
- Find solutions for issues and
construct new product

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Edible Project Part II

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 Final blueprint

- This is a 3D replica of what

we managed to achieve in
our final project

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 Project Complications/ Materials
that did not work

● Chocolate bowls
● Banana as
horizontal beam
● Zucchini Spirals
● Climate controls

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team Advantages
- Cost
- Safety
- Flexibility
- Resourceful

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Construction of
Prototype

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First step: Building the support beam

- Used peanut butter and Nutella for

adhesive
- Added additional sugar wafers to the
sides
- Put into freezer for 30 minutes

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 Second Step: Connecting the
base and the support beam

● Materials Used: for base

included. Butter, Rice
Krispie and marshmallow
● Mixed Everything together
and placed support beam
directly in the middle.
● Put back in freezer for one
hour to solidify base and
support beam.

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tHIRD STEP:connecting the horizontal beam to the support beam
● Materials Used: Celery stick
for the horizontal beam and
Bread stick for the pivot
● Celery stick was carved out
as evenly as possible

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 fourth step : Attaching the Weighing Bowls
● Materials Used: Orange
peels for the bowls and
Sweetarts ropes for the
strings
● Cut holes in orange peels to
fish ropes through and
attach to horizontal beam

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video

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Cost of entire project
Supplies for Prototypes Supplies for Final Product

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Cost of the product
Explained

● Over Budget
● Actual cost to
produce prototype
again
● Cost constraints

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 Marketing our Scale
project
● Target Audience-
Children under the age
of 10 taking STEM
Courses.
● Requirements
● Marketing Advantages-
Why our Product.

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Calculations

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 Future Potential
Improvements
● Improved accuracy and more
precise measurements
● More user-friendly and less
time consuming materials
● Structurally stronger adhesive

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