Category: Past Toys

Team 16: “The Speedster” Drag Racer Brennan Fagrell, Ian McCampbell, Lewis Smith, Our toy is a drag racer powered by a wind-up motor that shoots a reusable parachute out of the back of the toy after a short period of time, much like a real … Continue reading“The Speedster” Drag Racer

Inspires Future Engineers Award Team 15: Factory Floor Wars Jesumayomikun Olasubulumi, John Roberts, Sanford Chang, Taylor Tillet, Two players compete with each other to connect their start and end gears first, while trying to jam and dodge their opponent. Two fixed gears are attached on … Continue readingFactory Floor Wars (Inspires Future Engineers Award)

Team 14: Tron Bike Guoxiang Zhao, Chi Zhang, Kyle Dickerson, Shayaan Rauf, The “Tron bike” is a motorized bike bike that will provide user with an exciting playing experience that brings him/her into the “Tron” story. with a motor and a belt-sprocket system. The bike … Continue readingTron Bike

Team 13: Driving Dory Andrew Logan, David George, Hadley Stuart, Scott Wendholt, Dory is a confused fish who got lost on her way to her friend’s house. She somehow ended up on land, and now has to drive around and find her way back home. … Continue readingDriving Dory

Team 12: The College Station – Purdue Edition Binghan He, Rakshak Khanna, Russell McIntosh, Timothy Kopera, Keeping tradition alive with your favorite college mascot, this iPhone 5 docking station is the perfect combination of past and present. It allows you to charge your phone and … Continue readingThe College Station – Purdue Edition

Team 11: Fido the Frisbee Eating Dog Bennett Eifrid, Kaitlyn Yancey, Silp Udomthaveedej, Do you like to play Frisbee with dogs? Do you like a challenge? Then Fido the Frisbee Eating Dog is for you! Fido the Frisbee Eating Dog is a two player toy … Continue readingFido the Frisbee Eating Dog

Best Engineering Design Award Team 10: Terex Jonathan VanBuskirk, Jonathan Yau, Eric Flores, Eric Drawbaugh, Terex is a modular learning tool that utilizes discovery to teach the user about sensors and basic controls. The outcome of the overall experience is to develop a learning curve … Continue readingTerex (Best Engineering Design Award)

Team 9: Insanis Cody Geisler, Joel Williamson, Rishi Tandulwadkar, Stephen Shaefer, Insanis is a puzzle that goes beyond ordinary interaction. It seeks curious users to attempt to unlock its secrets. The mechanism backbone creates an intriguing user experience that requires understanding how things interact within … Continue readingInsanis

Team 8: Bomb Ball Anne Kenny, James Elia, Patrick Zeid, Zachary Schultz, The Bomb Ball is an animated and exciting game based on the video game character from the classic Super Mario series. Players of this game twist the key to activate the Bomb Ball … Continue readingBomb Ball

Best Aesthetic Appeal Team 7: Tater the Dancing Truck Charles Boamah, Kathryn Schafer, Nathaly Samper, Every car in Galena, the sweetest town along route 66, has a special talent unique to them. Tater’s specialty is dancing. The toy car designed after the characters in the … Continue readingTater the Dancing Truck (Best Aesthetic Appeal)

Team 6: Minion Arena Julia Penafiel, Telson Erebor, Wenyao Li, Zhentao Ying , This project is based off of the movie Despicable Me. There will be two minions fighting each other. The goal of the game is to knock the other player’s minion out first.

Team 5: Bugwars Abhay Paropkari, Daniel Marshall, Elliot Conrad, Bugwars is a toy that is geared towards boys from ages 8-12. The “bug” is a toy weapon that can be attached to a child’s wrist and contains a cannon that shoots a rubber tipped projectile … Continue readingBugwars

Team 4: Crazy Fountain Clifton Anderson, Galen Dunbar, William Graves, Zachary Nelson, Crazy fountain is a fun game that combines the concept of skee-ball with Purdue’s own Engineering Fountain. This two person interactive game will challenge its contestants as they compete for the high score.

Best Market Potential Award Team 2: Aporkalypse Shakin’ Bacon Abhinav Bhasin, Kristen Bladwin, Lauren Kretsch, Matthew Sinclair, Aporkalypse: Shakin’ Bacon is a structural board game with elements that are reminiscent of twister and jenga. Players spin a wheel and use the corresponding pieces to build … Continue readingAporkalypse Shakin’ Bacon (Best Market Potential Award)

Team 1: The Stair Rover Devavrat Shanbhag, Eric Myers, Nathan Schwenk, Satvik Thaker, Toy Story… the little green army men. Dedicated to their country and their fight but how hard was it for them to climb a staircase? Ever felt empathy for them? Well now … Continue readingThe Stair Rover

Team 11: The Rockin’ Robots Members: Carmen Zaccaria, Sajed Dosenbach, Jacob Beasley, Young Il Yoon Tink, Spike, Flash, and Pinky are Robots from the worst of all junk yards. They have been replaced by bigger and better robots in the recent years. But now they … Continue readingThe Rockin’ Robots

Team 10: Pablo the Flying Penguin Members: Benjamin Panfil, Efosa Ogiesoba, Graham Barnett With a pull of the rip-cord, you’ll send Pablo the Flying Penguin soaring into the air! Who says penguins can’t fly?! As Pablo is sent spinning into the air off of his … Continue readingPablo the Flying Penguin

Team 9: Programmable Music Box Members: Justin Case, Caleb Egolf, Dustin Youngs, Nianbo Yu The programmable music box is an innovative design that allows the user to create a melody. The retro, wooden finish adds to the aesthetic appeal and vintage nature of the toy. … Continue readingMusic Box

Team 8: Remote Controlled Apocalyptic Crossbow Members: Alexander Schmidberger, Jaesik Hahn, Matthew Miller, Neil Nevgi The Remote Controlled Apocalyptic Crossbow comprises of a miniature crossbow mounted on a remote controlled platform. The wheels on the platform control its movement in the forward and backward direction … Continue readingApocalyptic Crossbow

Team 7: SO1 BUDDY Members: Cody Dezelan, Sagar Sinha, David Schultz, Chris Yamamoto BUDDY’s sole mission is to destroy the enemy vessel. He accomplishes his goal by the use of strong kicks and speedy arm movements which allow him to swim quickly through enemy waters. … Continue readingSO1 BUDDY