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For open innovation, I worked on a combat robot project. We decided to make this project to try to learn more and be creative in our designs, as well as show other people that they can make cool, complicated projects. We also made a video to show our progress. It works using a LiPo battery, an RC receiver, a brushed motor controller, and two brushed motors for the drive system. Our robot also has a flipper mechanism, which works using an Arduino and brushed motor attached to a snail cam to wind up a spring to flip. It is all organized using compartments for each component. The top and bottom plates are currently made of wood, but our next step for this project would be to order them in steel. The side plates were made out of 3d-printed TPU for shock absorption, and the parts that had to be stiffer were PLA. I think that over the course of this project, we improved at our goal of learning more about different materials, and CAD, and I think that our video shows our process well.

During open innovation, I grew at collaboration, expression, iteration, and material exploration. I grew at collaboration because this was my first project at NuVu where I worked with other people on the same idea. I grew at expressing our ideas because we had to explain our project to lots of different people and develop a concept statement to tell people about our project. I grew at iterating because during open innovation we went through lots of iterations very quickly, both for individual parts and the overall idea. I grew at material exploration because we used 3D printing a lot during this project. We cast our own urethane wheels, we used different thicknesses of plywood on the laser cutter, and we considered how some pieces could be made out of metal.