Electronics scoreboard

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Situation Brief & Aims

Situation 

My Project is designed to resolve the problem of when you are playing snooker and you score a point you would have to put the points up one by one on an manual snooker scoreboard and you could make a mistake and put to fewer or to many points on the board. It also saves you having to stop from the game that you are playing to go over to the scoreboard and manually put the score up. It is also designed to resolve arguments between players and make sure it is all fair and there is no cheating going on. There are already scoreboards that are screwed on to table and stick up and ones you can clip to the table and they get in your way when you take a shot my scoreboard is designed to resolve this problem.  

Brief 

I intend to design a device that will improve scoring for snooker. I want to make the device screw able to the table so in a public place it would not get stolen, but I will try to have space so that the battery can be changed. I’m going to try to make the device portable and also make it look presentable and nice.  

Aims

  1. Final product must look good
  2. Device design must be small, portable and light
  3. Must be easy to access batteries for changing
  4. Device should be screw able to the table
  5. Device must have rounded edges so that it is not sharp
  6. Must be cost effective


Task Analysis

This is my task analysis. It consists of all the tasks that need to be completed throughout my product’s designing, Report and making. These tasks do not have to be done in order but the Report should be completed first before starting to make the product.

Project Description

This page explains what I am hoping to explain and show in each part of my Report,

  • Component Research – Researching the components used in my circuit. Find out how they work and what they look like.
  • Component List -  Involves all the components there quantity and price
  • Letter to Industry - Write a letter to a company about my product. To get information that could help do my project.
  • Project Research - Researching facts and figures about my product using the internet and books.
  • Situation and Brief – Describing what the problem is, and how I am going to fix the problem with my project.
  • Justification – Justifying why my product should be made. What my product is ised for and how it helps.
  • Step by Step Construction – Describing how I am going to make my product, step by step
  • Evaluation - Evaluating what needs to be done to complete my product
  • Aims - Things my product must have and what I want it to do.
  • Existing Products - Looking at existing products, similar to mine already in the market. Studying them seeing how I could improve my project using ideas from them.
  • Market Survey - A survey asking people different questions involved with my product. My results are shown Graphs, Charts and tables etc.
  • Design Specification – To make a detailed explanation of what the electronic product does.
  • Initial Ideas - Have two circuit ideas and two basing ideas.  Use drawings and annotations to explain your idea.
  • Basic Operation – To make, and insure the basic operation of the product works
  • Photograph – To take a photograph of the final product, and to conclude it.
  • Building – The building of my product
  • Design Development – Developing my initial design, to make it better
  • Printed Circuit Board – Making the PCB, using circuit wizard and the laser cutter.
  • Testing – Testing my product to see if it works, and to see how affective it is
  • Box Design – The designing of  the casing for my product

Research

 

These days snooker is played by a wide arrange of people from old to young. There are more than 500 professional snookers players playing in major tournaments around the world this year. Snooker is a very tactical game. This means that each frame takes longer, each game takes longer, resulting in a very long and tiring match with intervals.  The longest ever match was 14 hours and 50 minutes. This is the longest ever recorded time for a thirty-five frame match. The longest recorded televised frame was ninety-three minutes and twelve seconds long. So as the figures prove snooker is a very long sport and have a lot of points scored during these matches.

Existing Products 

There are many different types of electronic scoreboards available on the market. Many are used in cricket.

 

This Scoreboard is designed for cricket and is a big, clear scoreboard so that the spectators can see it from where they are sitting in the stadium.

This scoreboard is similar to mine because it also contains LED displays which I am using. This scoreboard has a handheld radio LCD controller which you can use to change the score of up to 200 metres away.  

 

This product contains seven segment displays. And has a flap that covers the displays when not in use and clips together. This keeps it waterproof when not in use. When the flap is open it acts as a stand so that the scoreboard can be seen. This scoreboard has the ability to be connected to a pc.  This is only added to the scoreboard if the customer would like it.


Basic System Black Diagram

This is a simple block diagram which shows how my circuit will be working.


Letter to company


Market Survey

Please tick the boxes and return to me:

1) How old are you?

          0-18              19-30            30+

2) Do you play sport frequently?

            Yes                No

3) Have you ever played snooker?

             Yes              No

4) What was your biggest score?

          0-10            10-20           30-40

          40-50          50-60          60-70

          70-80          80-90           90+

                              Can’t Remember

5) Would an electronic Scoreboard be better than a manual scoreboard?

            Yes          No

6) How much would you be willing to pay for an electronic scoreboard?

            0-£2          £2-£4           £4 - £6         £6 - £8           £8 - £10

7) Are you a member of your local snooker hall/club?

           Yes           No

8) Do you own a personal snooker cue?

            Yes            No

9) Have you ever watched snooker before?

             Yes           No

10) Do you see room in the market for my product?

                Yes                 No


Market Survey Results 

These are the results from a survey of 50 people.

1)

There are a lot more 0-18 year’s olds because I gave the survey to most of my classmates. The 19-30 was some of my parent’s friends that were willing to help and 30+ were my grandparents.

2)

 My results show that more people don’t play sport frequently. I think is due to the fact that the majority of the people I surveyed were teenagers and not a lot of them were very active and didn’t do sport. Although  some people did play for the school sports teams and other outside clubs.


3)

As shown on my results graph, more people have played snooker than haven’t. Snooker isn’t a very well known sport. It is quite rare and there are not many places to play it. Whereas pool is a lot more heard of and can be played in most pubs, restaurants and bars.

4)

There are a lot of people that have got very low breaks. This is because snooker is a hard sport to master and only the really good players will manage to get higher breaks. This is because they train for long periods of time, nearly everyday of the week to perfect and improve there game.

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5)

A lot of the people that answered yes to this question explained that it would be more pratical, save time and it would be nice to have something new and up-to-date with techonology.

6)

A large amount of people said that they would be willing to pay between £0-£4, hardly anyone would have paid more. I think this is due to the economic state of the country at the moment. We are in a ...

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