{"id":227,"date":"2022-07-15T22:55:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T22:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vishnusrinivas.com\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2022-07-16T16:39:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T16:39:57","slug":"purdue-chain-react-club","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vishnusrinivas.com\/?page_id=227","title":{"rendered":"Purdue Chain React Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One of many late nights in the shop- me working on implementing the rotating base idea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Watch the 2021-22 Purdue Chain React Machine in Action<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Purdue’s Chain React team is a storied club that has been building Rube-Goldberg machines and winning competitions for years. Even before I got to campus, I knew I wanted to get involved with that kind of hands-on work and collaboration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a member of the team, I helped design, build, and paint multiple of the steps and transitions on the machine. I also did a lot of work to try and implement a rotating-base design for the machine that was, ultimately, unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our machine won the Purdue National Chain React Competition in 2022, amazingly registering a perfect run in our final attempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Machine:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The full Rube-Goldberg Machine<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The competition was very open-ended, but each team’s machine had to perform the same end goal: to put a pair of sunglasses on some object as the final step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine was designed with a theme of Vikings and Dragons. All of the steps and transitions are somehow aligned with that main theme. This is footage of the only perfect run the machine ever had (which was, amazingly, at the competition and the last time the machine ever ran).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Contributions:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I worked on multiple different steps and mechanisms. Here are a few of them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n