Telescoping Climber

Annalise G.

Computer-Aided Design

• Collaborators

  Vaughn K., Sattvik S.

• Artist Statement

  This climber combines creativity and art with functionality. While designing the telescoping arm for a robot, we focused on making it visually appealing and ensuring it was functional and robust. As we designed a part of the climber, we found ourselves going back and remaking it multiple times so everything worked. It required a lot of collaboration to find new ways to attach parts and shape them before they looked as it does today. One thing we took into consideration was how we were going to make commercial parts fit into our design, and how to design around the items we couldn’t change, like the motors and gas shocks. Overall, being able to create a feature, review it with your team, and then go back and change it impacted our design in monumental ways.

• Creative Statement

  To me, creativity is observing a situation and then designing something that works better than before. Creativity is having the courage to share your ideas with others.