UCSD Cape

Inspiration is not an easy thing to come by, and no one can predict when it will strike. The light bulb suddenly flashes on overhead, and the gears inside your brain start to turn. The excitement of the “Ah hah!” moment is great, but often short lived when the realization of the logistics come into play.

Engineers often find themselves in this situation when a new idea for a robot pops into their head, but then there is the complicated process of crafting the internal hardware and writing the software to actually make it work. James Strawson, PhD student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and founder of Strawson Design, grew tired of having to create new circuits for every new robot that he worked on, so he unified his current and future robotics projects under one hardware and software platform, thus creating the Robotics Cape.