Rotating Controller for Interchangeable Game Boards
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional interactive games are often monotonous due to fixed game boards, lack of portability, and require frequent relocation, which limits their entertainment value and accessibility for events like fairs and picnics.
Innovation Solution
A portable game apparatus with interchangeable game boards and a rotating controller that allows for dynamic gameplay, featuring a base with a game board receptacle, pathways for rolling elements, and optional motor-driven components for varied challenges, enabling easy setup and transport.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If pinball machines are made heavy and non-portable, then structural stability is improved, but portability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The game apparatus is divided into separate components: a base unit and interchangeable game boards. This segmentation allows the main base to remain stable while individual game boards can be easily removed and replaced, achieving both structural stability and portability.
Solution Approach 2:
The game boards are designed to be dynamically interchangeable, allowing the user to switch between different game configurations. The rotating controller enables dynamic adjustment of game board orientation, providing stability during play while maintaining ease of reconfiguration and portability.
2Device complexity
If game boards are permanently connected, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The base unit is designed as a universal platform that can accommodate multiple different game boards. The standardized receptacle and mounting mechanism allow various game configurations to be used with the same base, achieving both simplicity and high adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The rotating controller provides dynamic reconfiguration capability, allowing game boards to be rotated to different orientations and angles. This dynamic adjustment enables the same physical board to provide multiple gameplay experiences without increasing device complexity.
3Manufacturing precision
If game boards are made static, then manufacturing precision is improved, but entertainment value deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The rotating controller enables dynamic adjustment of game board orientation and angle during gameplay. This dynamic capability is achieved through precision manufacturing of the rotation mechanism, maintaining manufacturing precision while dramatically enhancing entertainment value through varied gameplay configurations.
Data Source
AI summary
An amusement device having a base with a controller, an interchangeable rotatable inclined game board having a plurality of rolling element pathways thereon, and a rolling element that can be introduced onto the interchangeable game board and manipulated by the user through rotation of the controller to move through a plurality of pathways to an exit hole. The exit chute is alignable, by rotation of the game board using the controller, with a gap in a stabilizing ring and an adjacent recess in the base, to enable the gravitationally assisted removal of a rolling element from the play surface to a storage compartment to store the rolling elements that are successfully moved to the exit chute by the user.