This project was undertaken for the the Individual Project class of 5th year at Strathclyde. The aim was to try and tie in sustainable developments with the sports aspect of my degree. As such the project identified the impact that tennis balls can have on the environment and aimed to address this.

Some further aspects of the project folio are also presented below to show a more in depth story of the project.

User feedback was gathered in a number of ways throughout the project and was essential to ensure the the final product produced would be something of interest to the target market.

Concept Generation Methods were used to analyse the developed concepts and ensure that the strongest concepts were identified. These were based upon the essential functions as well as factors users had identified as being important.

The final design was generated from a combination of the two strongest concepts.

Due to working from home facilities and material were limited, but simple prototyping was carried out to provide a greater understanding of how the product may function.

Finite Element Analysis was also carried out on SolidWorks to ensure the parts made were suitable for use, some of these tests are shown below.

Adaptations were made to the product to make it more suitable for production, one such change was allowing one core tube to fit within the other. This greatly reduced the length and volume of packaging.