“Do you know the second law of thermodynamics? Its like when a droplet of water enters the puddle and there are ripples formed outward, but you don’t see ripples coming back together and a droplet shooting out.” -Dr Ho
Our first meeting and there were a lot of ideas thrown around. We didn’t really know how to start but we all knew we wanted to do something fun and exciting, and that provides a lot of convenience to our daily lives… It went from robotic window cleaners which functions principally by magnetism to make cleaning a safer job, or maybe shoelace tie-r so you’ll never need to bend down and tie your shoelaces!
Then there were fun projects like a glitter bomb, or taking inspiration from drones that can shoot out fire to shoot out water instead (to put out fires, you know), to nut sorters because you need someone to sort out nuts when you bought the assortment packet, right? And what about an electrical encyclopedia that can help you identify birds that you see outside the window in NTU? Or how about an umbrella that can follow you around, or even better — one that sprays out water droplets so you can be cooled as you trek from dorm to the Hive… #combattingclimatechange
Consisting of 3 biological sciences students and 1 computer science, our ideas were classified as very creative, but overly idealistic. After the first consultation with Dr Ho and an informal crash course on physics and the 2nd law of thermodynamics, it was clear that yet another round of brainstorming was necessary…
