Insight:

؜Beavers are slower on pavement than on grass.

How might we ؜create a device that helps beavers maintain traction and speed while crossing roads.

How Might We:

؜Tim

Source:

؜Problem:

؜Beavers are slow on land. They are even slower on paved surface. This is due to the slipperiness of the bottom of their feet: their webbed toes and toe nails cause a lack of traction.

INITIAL EXPLORATIONS

Precedent research: Faster Feet

Precedent reaserch: Faster Legs

Precedent research: Fast animals

Precedent research: Fast Robots

Precedent reaserch: Faster Arms

؜Speculative Design

؜Beavers are slow, and delicious. Which results in them being the prey of predators and automobiles. As payment for all the hard work Beavers have done for our environment, we want to gift an invention back to them that will help enhance their abilities to avoid these dangers.

Using modern technology...

؜OUR NARRATIVE

Ideas/Sketches:

Ideas/Sketches:

Ideas/Sketches

؜Prototypes:

؜Second Round

Incorperating feedback

؜Secondary Research

؜Results

1. Move forward with limb extension
2. Create prototypes both for front and back legs

؜Front Limbs

؜Goals:

1. Focus on exaggerating beaver movement instead of mimicking faster animals
2. Allow for Beavers to carry materials in their hands while moving fast

Back Limbs

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؜Goals:

1. Focus on exaggerating beaver movement instead of mimicking faster animals
2. Enhance the jumping motion beavers run with

Next steps:

1. ؜Higher fidelity fabrication

1. Testing with/on beavers (in theory)

1. Getting feedback from people in the beaver field

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Thank You!