“The wonders of life can be done simply.”
Dr Ho was particularly fond of our umbrella idea, but Tony, not so much. Tony was the voice or reason and an advocate for setting realistic goals. After browsing through senior’s past projects and looking through more inspiration, the biologist in us manifested in our ideas to make a machine/robot that can climb trees!
But that too had a lot of physics and robotics involved. With little background in coding and mechanics, our group settled on something more achievable but equally fun: the pseudo fish. With the hope of being able to get some underwater footage as to what really lies under the pond located at our halls of residence: Crespion Hall. Of course, the bigger problem statement we were solving was with marine ecologists in mind, where human presence is likely to disturb the natural behaviour marine life. So making our underwater camera externally designed like a fish could hopefully provide a solution.
The next step was to figure out how we were going to design this.