Team Entries

AD Aquas

Designed by: Megan Gunderson, Maxwell Kraft, Mike Sebring Lorraine Guerin

Ad Aquas Company strives to make pool and aquatic environments more accessible for the physically disabled. Ad Aquas’ newest product is an affordable and portable lift that will make it easier for wheelchair-bound individuals to enter and exit a pool. With a unique collapsibility feature, the product will be easily transportable from location to location. Ad Aquas is dedicated to providing a safe and dependable product."

3 Degree Solutions: Val Drive

Designed by: Geiger, Yifan Li, Nicholas Konetzke, Kyler Lyman

The VAL Drive, short for variable mechanical lever drive, is a lever propulsion attachment for manual wheelchairs. It is designed to increase comfort and performance by combining the improved biomechanical efficiency of a lever drive with a variable torque system analogous to a gearbox. This variable advantage system makes the VAL Drive a practical option for users with a broad range of fitness levels.

The Hutt

Designed by: Luke Jewell, Mike Warren, Aabhas Singh, Cory Jackson

We, Team Hutt, are designing a portable heated shelter, the CAHMP. The purpose of the CAHMP is to provide an alternative to conventional high-end tents by incorporating solar thermal heating, while still being reasonably portable.

The Mowevator

Kellen Moore, Wesley Scott, Travis Strom, Benjamin Kufahl

The Mowevator provides capabilities to service push lawn mowers at adjustable heights and orientations. It also features a collapsible design to allow for compact storage.

Sail Force One

Designed by: Lanyon Conrad, Jason O'Neal, Charles Dorn, Peter Grimmer, and Max Zuhlke

Sail Force presents the design of the Sail Force One (SF1), a package capable of converting any standard kayak model into a fully functional personal sailboat. The SF1 is a portable and easy to set up kayak sailing kit that can attach to nearly any recreational kayak. Equipped with outriggers, a rudder, and a jib sail, the SF1 is capable of sailing upwind and downwind, but also allows for paddling. It achieves universal kayak compatibility by utilizing a simple and stable ratchet strap attachment method. The SF1 provides a full kayak sailing experience at a competitive cost.

D4MR

Designed by: Richard Zuern, Bradley Dick, Sean Holinka, Mark Garrison

The D4MR project is focused on a 'grave-to-cradle' solution to address the issue of waste plastics generated from traditional methods of 3D printing, such as support structures and incomplete prints. The D4MR is designed to take inputs of waste or scrap thermoplastic material, break down and decompose the material if necessary, and re-extrude the material into recycled filament compatible for use with most commercial 3D printers currently on the market.

Tee To Green

Designed by: Matt Bruciati, Jordan Entwisle, Andrew Ries, Alex Handler

Tee to Green Solutions is creating a cart design that decreases employee work time and reduces physical stress. Our device acts as an intermediate step between gathering driving range golf balls to dropping them into the ball washing machine. The employee will empty up to six full baskets from the driving range picker into the cart, push the cart to the golf ball washing machine, turn on the lifting mechanism and let the machine do the rest. Our design will be a cost effective solution in comparison to other golf ball handling products on the market.

Exo-Arm

Designed by: Contreras-Guzman, Patrick Quinlan, Max Wrenn, Brandon Chin

ExoArm is a physical therapy device used by patients rehabilitating from neuromuscular weakness on one arm. ExoArm enables the patient to perform rehabilitation exercises with a greater range of movement. By augmenting the movement of the patient and mitigating the weight of gravity on the patient's arm, greater flexibility is achieved with w reduction in fatigue of the patient. While wearing ExoArm, exercises may consist of everyday tasks which become difficult with a neuromuscular disorder, such as a stroke.

Volaire Cycling

Designed by: Andrew Zimmerman, Samuel Wolcott, Thomas Lyneis, Robert Sauer

A bicycle regenerative braking system. Energy is stored in a flywheel that is mounted on the rear hub. The user has controls to engage, disengage, and alter the angular velocity of the flywheel to govern the speed of the bicycle. University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Engineering Physics
Madison, Wisconsin
Revised: 12/14/2015