01 | Intro Activity: Don't Drop the Ball

Response to intro challenge

Erik Hashimoto

This "device" uses one balloon to push the munchkin into the wooden "cart" and you carry the cart next to the target and use the second balloon to push the munchkin into the target.

Cardboard donut tentacle

Thelonious Cooper

For our design, we decided the best way to pick up a donut hole would be to grip it with a curled piece of cardboard. We broke the structural elements on one end of our strip of cardboard such that it curled easily. We tied the end of the strip on the curved end to a string so that we could pull the string to curl the cardboard. This was the first iteration of our design. We then decided to route the rope through a straw and into a syringe such that we could use one hand to open and close the syringe, thus opening and closing the cardboard. Our final design choice was to spring load the syringe open such that one only needed to press the syringe to open the tentacle, and it would close automatically upon release.