INTRODUCTION

Imagine it’s a year 1849. Electrification is just a crazy idea of a few pioneers in a field of electric energy. You have escaped from Europe to the ‘New’ continent to find better life. As so, you have bought a piece of land and built a dock there. The ships are going in and o and you are slowly going out of workers. The load is becoming bigger and heavier so the only thing that can save your dock is a new machine. The magic machine built of the materials that are not expensive and you can obtain a lot of them. Wood and water. Your task is to make a hydraulic crane.

TASK

• –  Make a hydraulic arm (crane) out of given materials to lift cans. You will receive 4 cans which you should place one on each other to make a pyramid with 3 cans as a base and one as a top.
• –  The crane can be controlled by syringes only. No hand hold or other way of controlling the functions of the crane.
• –  Any other constructions than the crane is forbidden
• –  Keep in mind, that the arm should be able to operate in all directions(left/right, up/down, forwards/backwards)
• –  The cans will be at any place up to 30 centimeters from the arm base-desk
• –  Screws can be used to attach the construction to the ‘mother’ board only.

CLASSIFICATION

100 points in total

BEST classification

• –  Arm construction
• –  Design and quality – Creativity
• – Final task + impression

Jury classification

• –  Fastest time 1st / 2nd / 3rd
• –  Full pyramid construction – Noleaks

• –  No can falls
• –  Crane (arm) will broke down