About

The All-Terrain Walking Cane began as a team project for the FIRST® Innovation Challenge

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What is FIRST®

FIRST®(For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is an orginization whose goal is to inspire students of all ages in Robotics.

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What is Innovation Challenge

The Innovation Challenge is the competition that was created by FIRST® during the pandemic as a result of teams not being able afford or meet to build a new robot for a new robotics season.

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4338 Falcons

4338 Falcons is a FIRST Robotics Competition team from Israel. We chose to design an affordable device to help people go up and down stairs. We also tried to make it portable and give the user even more support while walking on any terrain.

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What happened next

Although we did not move on to the next round of the competition, Luis Daniel continued developing it in the US and has turned it to his senior project.

Initial team + acknowledgments

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Irene Song

Created the initial CAD models that demonstrate the main idea of the cane mechanics.

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Tyler Crawford

Thought of the problem.

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Michael Shappell

Proposed the idea for a solenoid and spring mechanism.

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Benny Schwabsky

Supported the team in the process helping whenever help was needed.

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Rubin Mohajer

For getting us an interview with Anke Grossmann (Coordinator for Health Services at the Bahai World Centre).

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Agam Mizrahi

Helped with brainstorming mathematical problems, and preparing submissions.

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Ilan Elfen, and Shelley Roth

Helped with brainstorming, reaserch and preparing for interviews and submissions.