*Honorable Mention* by Eli Isom, Stephen Hoke, Joshua David, Joe Stevens. The goal of this project is to design and build a 3-D functional model of a V8, supercharged combustion engine. This product is an easy-to-assemble kit aimed for educational purposes in schools and labs … Continue readingV8 Combustion Engine Model
*Honorable Mention* by Cece Carlson, Isaac Smallwood, Julius Walliser, Till Laube. The Great BoilerDash is a combination of popular mobile games such as Subway Surfers and Temple Run and brings them into reality with a Purdue theme. This interactive toy features a moving track with … Continue readingThe Great BoilerDash
*Honorable Mention* by Adeline Hauck, Christian Lehman, Ben Knight, Morgan Shoop. Cow Crusaders is an interactive, physical arcade game loosely based on Space Invaders. Oncepowered by a switch, the alien spaceship drops marbles in hopes of knocking down seven ‘cows’ as flaps.The marbles are directed … Continue readingCow Crusader
*Honorable Mention* by Omar Benkhye, Lucas Eichenberger, Jack DeWolf, Joe Tordi. A Mario and Cappy toy with a motion range of 130 degrees for Mario’s right hand and the cappy raising to 1.5 inches, both working autonomously without user input. The toy is targeted at … Continue readingMario and Cappy
*Best Engineering Award* by Nicolas Wilkinson, Sara Swanlund, Jack Reynolds, Kristin Vose. Bring a science fiction and fantasy character droid, BB-8 to life in a way that allows the user to play with it as a general remote-controlled toy, but also as a platform to … Continue readingBB-8
*Best Market Potential* by Jack Hawkins, Daniel Ventura, Tyler Hand, Fred Hoham. An amalgamation of a physical globe and the popular online game “Geo-Guesser”, The game functions by a pointer hovering over a country on the globe and the LCD display showing four options for … Continue readingGlobe Trottle
*Best Innovation* Noah Boursier, Elena Krizman, Gavin Noel, Jake Paré. A desk companion, named the Desk Buddy, moves and “interacts” with someone working at their desk in order to improve mood and productivity during long working hours.
*Best Aesthetic Design* by Joseph Kim Enrico Setiawan Sam Dumoulin Max Cohen. The gumball launcher looks to improve the old and outdated gumball design and make the user experience more exciting. The gumball launcher has a competitive edge over the traditional gumball machine because of … Continue readingGumball Launcher
*People’s Vote* by Ashlynne Ross, John Dustman, Lexi Loyot, and Luke Dreyer. The Wall-E Action Toy is a push-driven mechanical robot inspired by the movie Wall-E. The push action actuates the door flap opening and closing as well as the eyes tilting up and down.
*People’s Vote* by Yong Sung Kim, Jackie Fung He, Nick Will, Alex Lam. Inspired by the game Minecraft and the character of the Creeper, Creeper in a minecart that can be driven around using a phone application. The user can also push a button on … Continue readingCreeper in Minecart