Paper Stilts - ME310
Stilts entierely made out of cardboard. Paper Stilts ME310 exercise.
Me standing on the stilts that showed a surprisingly good mechanical behavior.
Date: 2012
Location: Stanford, CA
Project: ME310 - Warm-up
Team: Alexandre Jais, Daniel Levick, Si Jiang
Role: Concept Designer, Prototype manufacturing and testing
Paper bikes, is the first task that student going through the ME310 program have to complete. The goal is to build in two weeks a vehicule entirely made out of paper that can support the weight of a person and participate during a competition that lasts a few hours (usually on wet grass and involving a decent amount of water balloons).
The challenge our year was to design a vehicle that would be able to compete during a game of dodgeball. So instead of going with the typical two-wheel, push-cart cart design my team and I decide to go and do the first stilts in the history of ME310. It was a great success for both the design and our results during the competition.
This project was featured on Behance's product design curated page.
Initial inspiration
First tests with shapes and materials
The finished stilts