Computer engineering student Matt Cocca with a prototype for a braking system for the Hyperloop pod, at NYU Tandon’s new MakerSpace. Photo by Mary Frost
Computer engineering student Matt Cocca plugged a cable into a tabletop pneumatic piston.
“This is a braking system for the Hyperloop pod,” he told this reporter.
Cocca and his fellow engineering students are competing to design and build the best Hyperloop (a super-fast ground transport system) pod in a contest sponsored by Elon Musk and SpaceX, he explained.
In another corner, John Knox, a computer science student with a love of robotics, was working on a prototype of a 3D appendage that will attach to a harness on his back and perform useful functions.
“It’s going to use machine learning to teach itself how to move,” he said.
Both students were fabricating their prototypes in the new MakerSpace at NYU Tandon School of…
