As we may have mentioned before, our design prompt was that Eric likes frisbee and we thought that it would be fun if we could modify it ever so slightly. We began with the idea that we wanted to raise and lower the frisbee, as well as turn it. We realized that this idea was just turning the frisbee into a ufo, rather than a frisbee. So we started again and this time David gave us a digital compass to work with. After several discussions, whether to use a propeller or a flap to decrease lift on one side of the frisbee, we agreed on the flap idea. And as you can see in the gif, that was our final product.

Our idea was to create an ornithopter that could be steered from from a remote control. Ornithopters usually only go in one direction because the flapping of the wings interfere with the steering. We wanted to be able to make an ornithopter that could stop flapping, steer, and start flapping again. The goal of the studio was to create a flying sculpture. Our project fulfils this goal because if we were able to finish it, we would have made it look like a dragonfly. This would have made it into a fun, interactive sculpture.

We succeeded greatly in creating a real version of the Harry Potter Snitch, commonly used in the game of Quidditch. This is because we all wanted to make fiction real. It is because we have seen things in fiction come to life and we feel as if we should make our dreams come true also. So we started brainstorming ideas about how to build the Snitch and drew a rough sketch of what we originally thought it would look like.