This page lists all of the peer comments received on our prototypes through different stages of the project:
1st Round Prototypes:
Zach Booth:
I found the prototype of combining the drink and plate very interesting. I know that I have been at a food truck or a similar situation and it is always difficult to hold your drink and eat at the same time. Something to think about moving forward may be using materials food trucks already have. What I mean is adding as little as possible to your design since they will most likely end up in the trash. I am mainly trying to refer to using the same plates and cups the food trucks already use. I also found the trash compactor idea interesting. I have seen trash compactors at restaurants and I have noticed that the trash can inside the compactor does not even take up half of the volume of the entire system. The compacting system must take up a lot of space. Maybe focus on trying to make the compacting system small so that the actual trash can can be as large as possible.
Brian Bachir:
Patrick Beal:
Hey Nate, really like the idea behind the trash compactor. I used to work in a little frozen yogurt shop (still much bigger than a food truck) and trash was a big problem for us because it took up so much space. We basically were forced to have a designated room for trash before we could set it out on the curb or take it to the dumpster. The trash compactor seems like a legitimate resource to reduce this wasted space. I like your first prototype more than the second because it mechanically seems plausible with a pneumatic compaction device. My only concern is that the device’s wall that is supporting the compaction must be pretty strong. Maybe this can be placed in the corner of the truck and reinforced by the corner? Another thought that comes to mind is this…what if you had a large trash can outside of the truck and had a ‘doggie door’ that allowed the workers to throw the trash into the bin from the inside of the truck? This may remove all of the wasted space that the trash currently takes up within the truck. Just food for thought
2nd Round Prototypes:
Nick Sears:
Collin! Sweet prototype,I really like how compact it is before being assembled. If you go this route, I would make sure that it is indeed easy to assemble; other than that, it seems like an awesome idea that you could get pretty creative with.
Amanda Leong:
NOTE: Comments from class were to look into storage ideas from airlines and ambulances into how to compactly store their items.