These questions are meant to combine and apply area-specific skills together to build larger systems.
- Describe how you would build a lawn mower
- Construction: What materials would you use? How would you design it?
- Wheels
- Chassis
- Mentioning CAD tools and industrial manufacturing processes is a plus
- Electrical: components that are powered
- Do you need a motor for your lawn mower?
- What type of "brain" do you want for your lawn mower?
- Do you need sensory devices for your lawn mower?
- Do you need a power source to keep it going? Which kind? Is it enough for the components?
- What type of terrain would your lawn mower support?
- Where would your lawn mower put the trash?
- How would you design a UI to make it easily usable by people?
- How would you make it autonomous?
- How do you make your lawn mower safe?
- Construction: What materials would you use? How would you design it?
- Build an Autonomous Car
- Build an Elevator