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Once the entire mechanism and hardware was finalized, I was able to test out the actual ring toss game itself. I increased the speed of the motor to make the game challenging. I had a great time numerously attempting to land a ring on a horn of the moving longhorn. I blamed blame missing the target on my poor aim rather than the mechanism itself, but I was able to land a few on the horns. One of my successful landings can be seen in Figure 4.
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Figure. Ring Toss Game in Action
I consider this project to be a success since I was able to replicate the motion from my initial simulation. The motion was relatively smooth, and considering the fact that I had limited access and availability to traditional joint and link materials, I believe that my makeshift links and joints worked wonderfully. In the future, I would probably change the ring toss rings to be larger to land on the horns a bit easier. I would also prefer for the mechanism to reach its full range of motion, so I would probably use a different motor that could fulfill this wish.