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What's involved:
Each year students are challenged to undertake a specific project.
The 2024 project brief is to build a repeatable vehicle. The vehicle can be any movable device – wheeled, walking, sliding, jumping, rolling or other. It must move from a point on a flat surface to touch a wall placed at right angles to the point and then return to stop as close as possible to the start point. The device is to be started manually, but once it is underway, no interference or outside control is allowed. The project represents the first stages of a robotic device that could be used for materials handling purposes. The device can be of any construction and propulsion method, limited only by cost and size.
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Students are challenged to undertake a specific project to design, build and test:
- 2018 – an internal pipe-climber
- 2019 – an external pipe-climber
- 2021 – a repeatable vehicle
- 2022 – a line launcher
- 2023 – an internal pipe-climber
- 2024 – a repeatable vehicle
News & Updates
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"More was learned from the manufacturing, prototyping and testing of our device including failures and successes, providing an understanding of real-world processes before the final reward of having a fully working product."