"All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery."
Lets complicate things a little. Do you see mysteries and complications wherever you go
and you have never yet met a steadily logic person till date who thinks like you, then
contraptions is the place for you.
Making the complicated simple is commonplace but making the simple complicated :
awesomely complicated, that's creativity.
Its not always about wrapping up events in a finite number of sequences but to see a
simple step getting completed in a series of tedious steps is amusing.
Contraptions requires you to complete a simple event into a series of breath-taking and
uncommon steps that were never thought of otherwise. A little planning in the right
direction, patient thinking and efficient handling of materials can take you places. If you
always find complicated answers to simplest of questions, then contraptions is going to
quench your thirst. The judging criteria is the innovativeneses, the exclusivity and not to
forget, the madness !!!!
Problem Statement:
"Driving the Table Tennis Ball into the Goal."
Description:
A Table Tennis (TT) ball will be given.
The Contraptions must drive the TT ball into the Goal.
The ball can be initiated at any point.
General Rules:
Individual contraptions will be provided with 6 feet × 6 feet area.
The Dimensions of the Goal will be 15cm × 10cm.
The minimum number of steps needed to achieve your goal must be 5(five) and run till a maximum of 25(twenty-five).
A team can have maximum of 5 participants.
The last step of the contraption must be "Driving the TT Ball into the Goal".
Each Team will be given 3(three) trials to show their working arrangement. However failing in the earlier attempts will deduct some points.
A setup time of 20 minutes will be given before each trial. In addition to this, a setup time of 60 minutes will be given to every team before their first attempt.
The working time of the contraption should not be more than 5 minutes. Points will be deducted on exceeding the time limit.
Parallel Contraption fetch double points (each individual step in parallel contraptions will be given double points).
Repetitive steps are considered as a single step.
Cost of overall contraptions must be low.
Judge's decision shall be final and binding to all.
The organizers will provide the following at the venue:
Extension cords
230 V AC supply
Please intimate us, if you have any other requirements
All teams should submit 2 copies of properly printed write-ups of their contraptions clearly mentioning the number of steps, description of each step and energy conversions involved, during your Presentation in Aarohan.
The Following Demonstration video is just to show the ease of this year's Contraptions Problem Statement and make you (specially beginners) acquainted with the Contraptions.
Due to want of time, the Demonstration video might not depict the Arena and Goal specification.
