Space Apps Challenge 2018

Interplanetary Cephalopod Assistant: ICA | Design by Nature

Exeter

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There's more on our TeamSquid website - fly-throughs, interviews and more! teamsquid.co

Kate Jago

Making holes for our Interplanetary Cephalopod Assistant to repair!!

Kate Jago

Gwen working SO HARD in the Unreal...

Kate Jago

Thanks to Patrick at SpaceAppsExeter for helping us out with our digital logo :)

Kate Jago

We were SO PLEASED to win!!!! Alongside Team Valiant at SpaceAppsExeter (Jago and Maddy had to be in Bristol, so weren't in the photo but were there in spirit xx)

Kate Jago

And thanks to Dr Rupa Chilvers @rupachilvers for her pic of our presentation :))

Kate Jago

Here's the team presenting our challenge - thanks to SpaceAppsExeter and Design Spark for the photo :)

Kate Jago

Maddy's thinking about our NASA mission....

Maddy Jago

Our adopted room at The Met Office - we loved the venue!

Maddy Jago

After lots of hard work, the Unreal Team are happy with their progress - brilliant work by Gwen, and Louise was working on the ML application too

Maddy Jago

Here are the 3 articulated legs, cut to size. You can also see the "Third Eye" (Maddy made this from solder, beautifully and carefully wound), which could be used as a connecting, input or receiving device

Maddy Jago

Several things started happening to the model: the physics team gave us specific measurements that the legs had to adhere to, so that they would work in our modelling. Jo also put pipe-cleaners through to show the potential angles of activity

Maddy Jago

Here is Jo holding the legs! She worked out how to articulate them, too.... #modelling

Maddy Jago

Another important moment - we attached a block of lego to the base, to give the ICA structural integrity. It worked well, but the real "lightbulb" moment was when Jo found that the black straws from our morning drinks fitted *perfectly* onto the lego. We had found our legs!

Maddy Jago

The Squid gradually taking shape - there were boxes of materials which Maddy and Tilly scavenged for inspiration. We loved the texture of the gold and found the "eyes" inside light-up balloons #genius

Maddy Jago

The Unreal team getting started - Gwen, Louise and Margaret. No one had used the programme before, but Gwen thought it was the perfect opportunity to learn how to use it

Maddy Jago