the vision

After a little more thinking, I've come up with my next list of desired product requirements. These "requirements" are a little more loose, because they are dependent on what I'm capable of accomplishing in five weeks.
-The bowling pins will be shaped like actual bowling pins, rather than taking on shaping cues of a Coca-Cola bottle. Although it may be fun to bowl a bunch of bottles, I would rather come up with a useable product that could, in theory, be used in any bowling alley.
-The pins should be within the weight requirements of a typical bowling pin.
-They will be sturdy enough that they could be used in a real bowling alley. This is not necessarily the case for my own model, just the design itself.
-They would have a transparent shell so that the lights inside can be easily seen from the end of the bowling alley.


I'm thinking that the lights in these Coca-Cola bowling pins will be activated by a button at the base. When the pin is in an upright position, the button is pressed and the lights are on. After a pin has been knocked over, the button will release and the light will go off. It would be really cool if I could get the lights to flash for a few seconds, and THEN go off. Gotta figure out this electrical stuff somehow. I'll use multiple LEDs inside each bowling pin because they'd be able to take a beating from bowling balls!

Here's some of the sketches that I did prior to making this requirement list.