Engineering Projects/Poppit/Howard Community College/Fall2011/550 superior 4

Poppit Problem Statement

Create and record a consistent "chunking method" that pops the most number of balloons from the pool of balloons in Poppit. The preferable result would be 0 balloons left

Team Members

Put each team members name here with links to their personal page here. Real names do not have to be used.

Rhorton4549

Mbaig7172

palluri9407

Summary

We played the game countless amount of times and tried to find the best chunking method

Story

We split the tasks fairly simple with each member playing the game at home and devising individual chunking methods. At first we thought the project would be easy; all there is to do is to pop all the balloons and write how we did it. Yet earlier on each method we used came up short. We would often collaborate and discuss success and failures of certain chunking techniques. We tried various methods such as popping in pairs, popping vertically, popping from center to outer edges, etc.

Decision List

List all formal decisions made with links to their documentation such as a decision tree or decision matrix. None

Material List

Laptop/Desktop Computer, Engineering Notebook,Google Docs, and plenty of caffeine.

Software List

Fraps - Used to record gameplay on computer for later analysis and upload to Youtube.

Time

Spent several hours playing and creating/refining chunking methods over the weekend. Total hours cannot be compiled truly because we played the Poppit game sporadically throughout the day. An estimate would be 1-2 hours per day.

Tutorials

Most projects consist of making instructions to jump start the next team, shrink the learning of tools and software to the minimum, advice on where to purchase materials, how to assemble, etc. Tutorials modified or created are described here with links.

Next Steps

Share data with the data collection groups to pool together as much information as possible. Also present the development team with the best chunking method.