Remote-Controlled CraneOntario Engineering Competition

I qualified for the Ontario Engineering Competition by winning the Queen's Engineering Competition, and this was the provincial challenge: with a limited kit of materials and eight hours, build a remote-controlled crane that can pick up staples with precision, lift them to height, and drop them into a bucket.

We modelled loads in Python and MATLAB, wrote unit tests for the Arduino control code, and built a CAD model before touching any materials. After a decision matrix to choose between designs, we built directly from the CAD model. The crane completed every required task with bonus points, and the design placed highly after the presentation and report.