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Prize Winners

In January, we challenged you to create an innovative design with Autodesk Inventor and submit it for the chance to win prizes from HP, AMD, and 3Dconnexion. You responded to the challenge and we received many great entries.

We judged designs based on the broad use of Inventor capabililities, innovation, and aesthetic appeal. After a long judging process, we selected these winners:

Wheelchair for the 21st Century

Michael Piersa
Politecnika Warszawska, Poland

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This wheelchair for the 21st century was designed as an entry for a contest organized by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The wheelchair is designed to be driven by muscular force. Thanks to the employment of a gyroscope, mounted underneath the seat, the wheelchair can remain vertical while only using two wheels. The wheelchair has a set of gearings mounted on both 26" diameter wheels. The frame consists of two flat springs that are connected to a hard gyroscope box and through a liner guide to the seat's hard frame. The seat is connected to the liner guide by a set of clips.

Optimized Remote Control Car

Petr Najvar
Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

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This optimized radio controlled car chassis was created as part of a practice graduation exam at Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic. The student took parts and features of the Tamiya TA04-R RC car chassis and then modeled new parts for the purpose of optimizing the chassis to be more lightweight, have a lower center of gravity, and be easier to maintain.

FIRST Robot

Christian Garcia
Brooklyn Technical High School

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This robot was created for the 2007 FIRST Robotics competition. The robot was designed with the goal of placing as many 2 foot diameter ring tubes onto a scoring rack within a given time limit. This robot uses an arm to pick up the tubes and place them on the rack. The arm is powered by a pneumatic system that allows the piston to stop at any given position.