Connect 4 : Periodic Update 1

For this project, E+D II was tasked to create carnival games for Greenwich Academy’s annual charter day. I decided to team up with Maia, and Hannah to create a large scale connect four-game made out of cardboard. This idea started off as a multitude of sketches and measurements, for reference we modeled our Connect Four after a preexisting connect four in the middle school. This game involves a lot of math calculations in order to get the right proportions, and the dimensions were constantly changing due to evolving ideas and solved problems. The game pieces and structure is made out of cardboard, while the framing and base are made out of 1x 2 wooden planks. This process consisted of mass-producing the same files. Each side of the Connect Four consists of 8 pieces of cardboard with circle cutouts for the circular game pieces to slide into. The pucks are cut out of cardboard and covered with green and gold vinyl stickers with the Greenwich Academy tree logo on it, for the entire project we need 126 circular pucks. The reason we need so many is that we decided to make the pucks three sheets of cardboard in thickness and each the outer two sheets will be covered with the vinyl stickers. At this time in our project we figured out a new technique to connect each panel together, we found thin metal rods in the recycled materials and used those to feed it through the cardboard corrugation and use this as a way to join the individual panels. The next step for our Connect Four is to get each panel glued and joined together and then finding a solution on how to join the cardboard to the 1 x 2 wooden planks. After the design review with Mrs. Mielsler, she suggested that we keep the height of our large scale Connect Four in mind because our main users will be lower schoolers; so children ranging from pre-k to fourth grade. Taking this into consideration, my group and I decided on making the set height 3ft tall of the entire connect Four including the base in the 3ft.

The next step for the project is to reorder the metal rods for the framing of the connect 4 because we ordered the wrong size and to paint the framing and the 1x2 base white.