Process

Physical prototype  

To start off the process of building the physical prototype, I began by brainstorming ideas on what the dropping mechanism would consist of and what the overall product would look like. In the previous iteration, I had used dc motors to power the mechanism. I quickly realized that the functionality of these motors are limited and they are difficult to mount. For this iteration, I decided on using servo motors to power the dropping mechanism. After exploring all my ideas, I finalized on the idea of using trap doors. The idea would look something like this: