Final Presentation

Syuan-He Wang

Red Cells

NUVU: Transitopia

by Daniel Wang

Final Project

Marina Ten

Our green-transit energy idea was to convert an electrical car from an already environmental-friendly vehicle to a car that could change our planet's air pollution problem for the better. By utilizing HEPA filtration commonly found in vacuums, we figured out a way to filter out toxic microns through that process. Our goal is to implement these cars in heavily polluted areas of the world, such as cities, or near factories. While we don't have an actual real-life vehicle, our prototype includes electric, 3D printed, and laser-cut items to bring our design to life. 

Roboball Final

Maya Ashok

Roboball,simply put, is a remote control ball with a self driving feature, invisibility technology, and a small storage compartment. On the outside, it is a sphere covered in a material that bends the light around it in a way that makes it appear invisible (in our precedents). Internally however, there are complex mechanisms that make the ball move and help keep the storage unit ad other gears stay upright while the sphere rotates. It's purpose is to help transport small materials such as papers and small substances without being seen, mostly when it comes to confidential information being transported from one place to another. Our model is one that travels on flat, dry terrain. It is powered by flexible solar panels that slide out of the walls of the sphere. Roboball's purpose is to create a safer way to communicate/interact with people; a way that ensures privacy. Any digitally written messages or files can be accessed in some way, and there are many risks of theft when it comes to transporting medicinal substances. With roboball's invisibility technology, which is already in use in some military operations (according to the website we found our precedent in), these risks are significantly reduced.  

Roboball would initially be used by people involved in secretive operations and in the future, probably in the military to provide medicine on-field. There would obviously have to be many reinforcing adjustments made to roboball in order for the military use to be practical but the speed and invisibility would be helpful. Our model would most likely would not become a part of everyday life because public areas are too crowded so the invisibility feature would become more of a safety hazard than a safety measure. However, adding a drone-like feature to it would make it possible to use in everyday life as there is minimal risk of running into anything with so much height. The spherical shape could also be altered to something else if it were to run in air. 

prototype 7.8

Harrison Bowman

Final Presentation & Project Statement

Molly Purtschert

          In many ways, the human race has mastered transportation. We can fly across oceans, take lighting-fast trains between cities, and navigate mountains with gondolas. However, there are places in the world that are so isolated that a plane is not practical, and where no individual’s car could venture without getting stuck. Those are snowy, remote environments, such as Canada, Russia, Alaska, and Antarctica. People living or temporarily living in these places wait weeks or even months for supplies and mail, and we wanted to change that.

          Our transportation device is an amphibious vehicle that is intended to help deliver essentials like food and clothes to remote places in very cold environments. This vehicle is manned by a two-person crew and is designed to cross icy and snowy terrain, as well as bodies of water. In order to make these transitions, our vehicle has two propellers - a horizontal one on the bottom, which helps the vehicle float in water and keep from sinking in snow; and a larger one on the back, which propels the vehicle forwards. In our prototype, we 3-D printed both propellers and used Arduino motors to power them. There are no emissions, as wind energy is collected by the back propeller when it is not in use and stored in a battery for later. Our vehicle has two long, tube-like flotation devices on the bottom, similar to those on a hovercraft, which also help it glide across ice and snow. We used foam for these in our prototype and precisely shaped them using a foam cutter. We also added brakes for snow and ice travel, which were 3-D printed and brought into motion by a piston mechanism. Finally, we laser cut the body of the vehicle using a technique that allows the wood to curve to our preferred shape.

Sofia and Charlotte Final Presentation

Claudia Wessner

DuckieTown Video

David Wang

Codey Barr - Final Presentation (Nuvu SmartFarm Bot)

Codey Barr
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The SmartFarm Bot is an AI farming tool that gives the user full control with a remote that has speed settings, pre-programmed functions, smart line and distance sensing using the built-in sensors, and manual driving controls. On top of that, it is also EcoFriendly, small, and durable!

The Unflippable Car

Owen Wigren

The Unflippable Car

Infinity Grounded