May the Fourth Week

May 3: Luke's Mechanical Arm

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May the Fourth is this week so it's time to do some Star Wars themed engineering. In the original Star Wars Trilogy, Luke Skywalker loses his arm to Darth Vader. It is replaced with a mechanical arm. It's your turn to make your own mechanical (articulated grabber) and then engineer/modify it so that it can lift and move the highly unstable element 115. Post your build on Flipgrid.

May the 4th

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Help me ObiWon-STEM-Kobi, you're our only hope.

  1. Grab an egg and convert it into an R2Egg2 unit.

  2. Build a vehicle with shock absorption that will keep R2 safe when dropped from 4-5 feet.

  3. You cannot completely cover you R2Egg2 in any kind of substance. It must sit exposed in a cockpit.

  4. You cannot use parachutes.