Team American chose a flip-top glasses case as the concealed device for the clue scanner.

There are several key design aspects of the scanner:

Packaging:
The outer form of the scanner: what the scanner looked like and its approximate size.

Opening Mechanism :
The mechanism behind how the two end caps of the flip-top glasses case "pop" open.

RFID:
The technology used to "scan" the clue.

Symbols:
Instructions and user feedback on how the device works and what it is doing.

Lighting:
A beam of light analogous to copy machines and real life scanners that gives the illustion of scanning.

Electronics:
The guts of the device.

CAD:
How everything was crammed together into 175mm x 65mm x 45mm enclosure.

Click on the links above to learn the details behind each aspect.