{"id":2595,"date":"2024-06-20T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centers.purdue.edu\/fusion-studio\/?page_id=2595"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:23:57","slug":"smdc-current-challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/centers.purdue.edu\/fusion-studio\/smdc-current-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"SMDC Current Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Registration Deadline: October <\/strong>16th<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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This year’s Design Challenge<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n \n\n
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This year\u2019s challenge: Pop-Up Dart Trap<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your team has been hired to develop some moving elements for a new, immersive escape room experience opening up in your hometown. One of the escape room themes has participants following the footsteps of Wisconsin Johnson, famed archeologist-explorer, through an ancient hidden temple avoiding the various traps set up to prevent looters from pillaging the temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the narrative of the escape room, Wisconsin Johnson (and other explorers) must be careful when walking through a particular passage of the temple; one misstep will cause the statuary heads along the walls of the passage to rapidly rise upwards off the floor (as if the statues suddenly grow taller), propel a poison dart from their mouths, and then slowly descend back to the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this challenge, you will design the mechanism behind this pop-up dart trap effect. This challenge has two elements: a mechanism to lift the \u201chead,\u201d and a mechanism to propel the \u201cdart.\u201d Additionally, you must design the method for triggering the dart to launch once the \u201chead\u201d has reached its maximum height.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the purposes of this challenge:<\/p>\n\n\n

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