Design Project
The result of your product being created, and the community which it helps went in this category of the project.
What is the Design Outcome?
This was biomimicked to improve the speed of swimsuits.
What is a Shark?
I had you mimic this many superpowers from nature.
What is 3?
The idea that you can copy something from nature in order to solve a problem or improve a design.
What is Biomimicry?
An animal I could mimic if I wanted to have something be waterproof.
What is an otter or a duck?
These are something an organism has that helps it to survive in the wild.
What are Special Adaptations?
This was biomimicked to improve the Bullet Train in Japan.
What is a Kingfisher?
There are this many sentences are in a paragraph.
The idea that you can look to Nature in order to get ideas to improve a design.
What is Bioinspiration?
An animal I could mimic if I want to create an omni-directional helicopter.
What is a hummingbird or a dragonfly (or a multitude of flying insects)?
After looking at Interesting Facts about an organism, an engineer can also look at these features of an organism in order to be inspired by nature.
What are Special Adaptations?
This was biomimicked to create the business idea that companies can use each others' bi-products so that there is little to no waste from each company.
What is Ecosystem?
Each paragraph had to cover these topics.
What are the organism that is being mimicked, how the superhero mimics the organism, and how the superhero will use these powers to protect the city?
Who is Janine Benyus?
An animal I could mimic if I wanted to design a robot that could squeeze into tight spaces and remove rubble from a disaster area in order to save people who are trapped.
What is a spider?
These are pieces of information about an organism that engineers often look to when they are trying to come up with ideas for Biomimicry.
What are Interesting Facts?
This was biomimicked to get the idea to link self-driving cars together with a sort of satellite in order to communicate with each other.
What is a Hive Mind?
This would be the goal of a superhero who got night vision by mimicking the eyes of an owl.
What is to be able to see criminals more easily in the dark.
These are the three categories of Biomimicry.
What are shape/form, process, and ecosystem?
A plant I could mimic if I wanted to design a solar panel that turned during the day in order to follow the sun.
What is a sunflower?
When biomimicking an invention, this is something you should do before you just randomly start looking at nature.
What is Set Goals?
This was biomimicked to improve fog catchers' ability to collect water from the atmosphere.
What is the Namib Beetle?
This would be the goal of a superhero who has camouflage powers by mimicking a chameleon.
What is to sneak up on the enemy in order to catch them red-handed.
The name of the mathematical pattern that creates the spiral that is found in many places in nature.
What is the Fibonacci Sequence?
An animal that I could mimic if I wanted to make a rigid, protective backpack that was still flexible enough to curve down the human back.
What is an armadillo?