Element H

What is our plan to test our design to show others that the design requirements were well thought out and would yeild good test data.

Our design requirements are pretty easy and self explanatory but I will go through them and explain them in detail and how we tested these requirements. For number one our cart needs to transport hurdles efficiently. We need a way to move hurdles in a quick manor so we went with puting the hurdles onto a cart witch can move them quickly and without much effort. 

Our second design requirement is it needs to transport at least 8 hurdles. The reason for 8 is because on our track we have 8 lanes and if we go by each lane it will be quicker. Rather than having to go back to the same multiple times to pick up hurdles.

Our third design requirement is it needs to be light enough for one person to push. The reason for that is because the less people needed the better. How we tested this is fully loading up the cart and seeing if someone can managably push or pull the cart on there own, witch they could.

Our forth desighn requirement is it needs to have a way for it to move under its own power or be towed. We went with the latter our cart can be towed by any vehicle because it has an attachable trailer hitch. 

Our final deisgn requirement is the hurdles needs a way to connect to eachother. This means that the hudrles must lighn up with eachother when on the hurdle cart so we dont take up too much space on the cart and make it as small as possible.

Testing data breakdown

We conducted two tests, one of them is how many hurdles per second our hurdle cart can transport up and down the school ramp to the track. In that testing section we also compared it to the original on the market product and moving the same amount of hurdles by hand. 

The second test is how many hurdles we can move across 10 meters or hurdles per second. First we tested the origonal cart then we tested our prototype.