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(Specific music continues) - [Narrator] On the last episode of Make48 - We have STEAM.

STEAM is incorporated in our education games.

We have the toy part, the fun games.

We're helping kids out.

- [Narrator] The teams brainstormed ideas for new STEAM toys and then pitched their ideas to the patent attorneys.

- When I Google sort of, just math tower games, there are hundreds of them.

- [Woman] Yeah.

- [Narrator] Coming up the teams head to a local hardware store to buy supplies and then they start designing and building their prototypes.

(intro music continues) This is Make48.

Everyone's got a big idea.

(upbeat music) Early in the morning on day two, the teams are anxious to get their supplies, so they can start bringing their ideas to life.

(upbeat music) - Good morning teams.

Are you guys ready to head out and grab the materials that are gonna help you bring your prototypes to life?

(teams cheering and clapping) All right, we're heading over to Star lumber.

You're each gonna have $200 and one hour to get everything that you're gonna need to build your prototypes.

Tool techs will be there with you, so make sure to ask for support if you have any questions and let's just have some fun.

You get to shop on our dollars.

- The category is toys but in particular, STEAM toys, science, technology, engineering, art, and math.

So, it has to base around that.

- All of our tool techs are deep into technology and science, and we all love that aspect of things.

- I mean, STEAM is like, everything, right?

That can go into so many areas.

- [Travis] And being able to take that and mold it into, from a toy aspect, it brings us all back to our childhood and what we might like as a child, being interested in science and technology and math, and even the artistic side of it.

- [Tom] Two different age groups that the teams could choose from.

It could be between the ages of 5 to 15 years of age, or for very sick kids in hospital.

- [Narrator] With only $200 and one allotted hour, the teams have to get to work finding the items they need.

- So, we're looking for as thin as possible.

Or do you have a certain- - Well, it needs to- Since it's the cubic foot box, it can't be too thin.

- Yeah.

I found them.

Oh, there it is.

(boy laughs) - You're talking about that really thin stuff?

- [Woman] Right.

- Uh, Door skins.

- Yeah, door skins.

- Yeah - Oh, they showed us the door skins.

I think that's what- - In back?

- This time, unlike the regionals or in Indianapolis, we sought to utilize the tool techs a little bit more.

- So this is Baltic Birch.

This is the good stuff.

(tapping on wood) - Yeah, cool.

- So, it's gonna stay real, it's gonna stay pretty flat.

- Now, where do we put this?

- There's a lot of glue in it.

That's what makes it- - We can fit it on the bus.

- I don't know if you'll be able to cut it in there.

- Oh yeah.

We can cut it in the laser.

- Okay.

(upbeat music) - [Man] Searching for stuff.

- Yeah.

We're trying to pick out the parts that are gonna make this the most splashy.

- Well, yesterday we thought we were working on something else Today, we are now working on a game.

Actually, we pivoted last night, but we were working on a game where, uh, the goal is to wet your opponent's pants.

- Splashy is good.

- Splashy is good.

Splashy is fun.

- Especially if it's water.

- Yep.

Yep.

Totally.

So, uh, got a good selection here.

- Yeah.

There's not a lot of splashy type things.

They're all pretty much white or black.

- I think we're gonna, we're gonna have a lot of base pieces that are like this and then maybe 3D print a few custom pieces.

- Or you, or you can get fusion.

Um, the plastic paint.

It'll stick to plastic.

- Ooh, tell me more.

- Uh, there's some it's is it?

Who is it?

It's uh It's fusion paint.

So, it's spray paint, but it sticks to plastic.

It's something about it that sticks to plastic really well.

- Do you think they have it here?

- Probably.

Spray paint.

- It's a thinking game and a mental reasoning game where you open and close valves, sort of pretending you're a plumber.

And your goal is to create pathways to a cup on your opponent's side of the field, and if it overflows, it tips into their lap.

- So - Does it say also bonds to plastic?

- I mean, I think this and those are primary colors.

- Does it say it?

If it says bonds to plastic, then it's good to go.

- Okay, so, we gotta come up with an aesthetic and then we'll choose a color.

(woman laughing) - [Man] I'd be worried about that, just with structural integrity.

(indistinct talking) (upbeat music) (indistinct talking) - Totally got this.

- How much is the walnut?

Do we think?

(group laughs) - Probably $300 dollars.

(group laughs) - We want it to look nice.

- Well, I'll make a deal with this.

- So we're making a light box.

It's got a light in the back, an opaque piece of plastic in the front that allows kids in a hospital to kind of play with color and shape and light and create their own kind of night light and ambient light for a hospital room.

So, they make three measurements and they determine the price from there.

So, it's probably not gonna be labeled until they measure it.

- Okay.

- We found a nice piece of walnut for our project.

How tall is this, about eight feet?

- You wanna make it a little longer than the original side, so you can cover and cut the ends off.

- I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with.

We've kind of brought in all the top two teams from all the cities.

So, I think that the level of competition is gonna be pretty high.

And I think that some really good ideas will come out of it.

(whimsical music) - [Man] What you looking for?

- Right office?

- How much more time do we have?

- Attention Make48 teams, You guys have 30 minutes left to complete your shopping.

(upbeat music) - Plywood sheet, regular rod?

- [Travis] Buy an extra one so in case you drop it.

- I don't think we need five.

- Yeah, we got pretty much everything.

They had pretty much everything we needed there.

- [Man] So, let's go back and check through that we got everything.

- Sandpaper.

Add that to list.

- [Man] Sandpaper.

- I love seeing like assortment of different things as they come together.

This is all you guys, right?

- Yes, the supply run was quick.

Got everything we needed.

(upbeat music) - This leg, right?

- Sure, sure.

- So here you're gonna tee off - and you could put something like- - and then we go across that way.

- Um, we went to the hardware store.

No, we didn't get everything we needed, but it's hard to plan everything you need.

- Yeah, right.

- You need to put a reverse one of these on that leg.

- Yeah, we've got one right here.

(laughter) - Yeah.

You gotta 30 back.

- Yeah.

- Yep.

- And that would go here, right?

- Yep.

Yeah.

- You get elbow deep in a project and you find out you need a couple other things.

And, now you're back to the store.

(upbeat music) - If I had to work with anything in this competition for this challenge.

It would be MDF because it's the most versatile, it's the most stable.

- Yeah.

I understand.

It would be good for the prototype, I'm just scared that we kind of need to know the uh the size it's gonna be, and then like the weight.

This way we can tell them how much the packaging is gonna cost.

Most of the stuff that we're doing it, we either using scrap wood that we have on the shop or 3D printing.

So, the only big thing that we really needed was a sheet of plywood to make the frame.

The big frame of it.

I know that this might be better for the prototype right now, but for the final product, what you think is the best, the best material?

- Well, Baltic Birch, plywood.

(upbeat music) - All right.

Make 48 teams.

This is your 15 minute warning.

Start thinking about checkout.

If you have any of the last minute questions, ask the staff and the tool techs.

You got 15 minutes to use the rest of your money.

(upbeat music) - Okay.

Is this something you found randomly?

- We're like, - And added on?

- We might as well just like make a cast too.

- Oh yeah.

- To showcase on top.

- [Man] I love Magic Make's idea.

- They have gone again for something that's hospital based.

It's a cast that has like patches on it.

It's a little bit more free form.

It's more like an activity toy play pattern.

- And what's this?

- For the plaster.

- [Both] Oh, to put it on- - for the cast making.

I haven't made, I haven't made.

- We're getting creative here.

- Yeah.

I kinda like it.

That's good.

- I haven't made Papier-mâché in like forever have, have you?

- Maybe elementary school's the last time I did that.

- Yeah.

Right.

- [Jay] Kids write on their cast and that's the way that they entertain themselves.

So, being able to see something created there on an item, that's part of their recovery experience that now can be entertaining for themselves and others is game changing.

- We'll figure it out.

I think this is what we need.

(uplifting music) - All right.

Make48 teams.

Your time is up.

What you've got is what you've got.

Let's head back to the buses.

(uplifting music) - As tool techs, you know, we've never left anyone behind.

Since the very beginning, we have always been able to get every team with a product to show the judges.

We wear that with pride and we aim to keep that record.

(music) - What else should we add on if we're gonna do like the communication tag?

That was in theme?

- Well, one of the suggestions was just like a simple game, like tic-tac-toe.

An interactive game.

- I mean, in terms of how many different things we want in an arm at one display, like I think the bones is enough for one thing.

And then we'll have the name tag, not the name tag, but the communication.

And then we'll have like maybe a section here where we can play the word jumble.

(uplifting music continues) - Before we left.

Last night, we had, we were supposed to have four 3D printers going for our parts, for our product.

- Yes.

- And it was all good.

And we were really nervous about leaving, and it was, like, Hey, go ahead.

And so we did and we came in this morning and- - No parts.

- No parts, they all failed.

- All, all eight hours of printing we had, gone.

- And so we had, we had - and that's eight hours worth of time.

And so today we're like, well, how are we gonna do this without 3D printing?

- What did you buy here?

- LED strip lights.

So, we can put the LED strip lights in, so they can simulate the light with the blasting of music.

- (murmurs agreement) - So, we're gonna stick these.

We're gonna drill a holes through our cubes so we can run the lights through the cubes.

- The cool thing is we came up with an alternative plan and it actually looks and feels better than it would have been with the 3D printing.

- Yeah.

The problem, get a better product out of it.

- So how big- - You thinking those cubes are gonna be about that size?

- No, this was the half size.

So one quarter, right?

- About that size?

- Yep.

- And how many, how many cubes are you doing, 12?

- We are doing 18.

18, 18 regular sized cubes.

And then we're doing couple half size cubes, like half notes or rest points.

- Okay, cool.

Half notes, smart.

- So, we really have a quarter note or a half note or a whole note.

So, we gonna do some cubes like that also, and just do simulation on how to put it together.

- All right, great.

You guys got a lot of work to do.

- We got a lot of work to do.

- I can't wait to see how it comes along.

- Me too.

(music) - [Ken] What we can do at GoCreate is a very challenging thing to explain.

You can do everything from your branding to photographs, to 3D printing, whether it's in woods, metals, welding, design, textiles, and electronics.

- [Kim] You can come in with an idea or a thought, and as you sit in our space and as you start expanding your ideas, you see that you can take it to another level.

Or what you started with might become totally something different.

(inspirational music) - We found a really broad patent (indistinct) - For the angry bird game and it's literally - - You have a primary target piece.

It's your target?

- The B.

- Or whatever.

- The overall, - A bunch of lines they are all the same.

- But it's not a primary target piece.

- You just trying to hit them all.

- Yeah, but if you go to court, I'm gonna choose one to say it's, you know, like a patent attorney can interpret things anyway they want.

Anything is primary.

- Well, we had to make a little bit of an adjustment to the original idea we had.

It wasn't working out with a patent that was out there and we had a long discussion with the lawyers about that.

- Well, see, the primary target piece is separate from the plurality of the building blocks.

- Yeah, but so is theirs.

- Well, if all they have is the plurality of building blocks and not a primary target piece.

I think the we can get around it.

- What's your target?

- That's what I was trying to say.

- So what's your - - Plurality of building blocks.

- Yeah.

- So, your blocks are the target?

- Yeah - Yeah (nervous laughter) - You know, I'm a lawyer.

So I see it both ways.

- You can argue it - You can argue both ways to me.

So since it's not just an automatic not infringement.

This one is really, really close.

Yesterday when we did our research, they essentially want like a projectile type of game.

That's gonna have blocks and you're gonna be throw- propelling a projectile and knocking down the blocks.

And we found a patent, but we explained to them that infringement is having every single element of the claim.

And this is where we disagree.

Because when you look at infringement, you literally read the claims, look at the product and say, do you have A?

Yes, I have A.

Do you have B?

And that's what seemed to happen.

But we told them, if you take one thing out, you'll be okay.

- And the patent claim that we found, is broadly as it is written.

So reading through the claims, the claims said something about a plurality of blocks, which means more than one block and a priority target, something along those lines.

Andrea made the point that, well, you have the plurality of blocks.

I could say that one is the priority target.

So, you know, lawyers disagree.

They can- that's where cases, litigation comes into play all the time.

So, we told the team you're close.

You're in a gray area.

Definitely.

- Right.

- You know, you could be sued by these guys.

Can you remove something else?

- So the whole point is you don't want something infringing.

So, can you change something?

I think you still have time to.

- Yeah.

- 'Cause what's the point if it's infringing, that's the whole point of why we are here.

Like if you know, it's infringing, you don't.

- You don't have the card.

You don't have the card.

You don't have the primary target piece, arguably.

It's up to you guys.

(Andrea laughs) - Depends on how tough the lawyer is.

(laughs) - Yep.

I mean, if it's owned by - Mattel.

- Mattel.

- Yeah - It could be litigious.

- And I think it's so close.

Like you going from a bird to a B.

Well, just be prepared, if you keep going to answer questions - They're gonna ask you that.

- Are they gonna be willing to invest in a product that they know going in, may be infringing.

- You're gonna need to tell them about your closest competition and that is your closest competition.

- [Man] So we ended up going with, instead of shooting at a tower to knock it down, we have to do something where we can't use it.

We can't like hit blocks and knock down blocks.

So we have to use some sort of target to score, to keep score.

(more music) - So you're trying to make a bridge?

With the - - So the game is- - These are the connection.

- We are the only team of two.

We have a good connection, a good synergy.

And that makes we are leveraging that.

Having a concise team to come up with an idea fast.

Converts to an idea, and then follow to the manufacturing of that.

The connection that we were thinking is like a magnet pole inside of them.

- Yeah.

- And then just those poles.

So, to guide the tools, the links.

- This way is not super loosed, but at the same time, we don't want it to be super strong, you know.

- To add a challenge.

- That's the magnet, because if it's a friction fit, then it's too strong or they wear out and they get too loose.

- That is exactly the problem.

- I think you need a bunch of tiny little magnets.

- Like what format would be better?

- Well, same format as this with the poles on each side.

- Okay.

- But with the 16th inch diameter, - We found- - Bunch of little magnets.

It's the only way.

- We could put, like- - It's a lot more work, that's for sure.

It's a lot more work having two people on the team.

But at the same time, it's a lot better to get ideas done as fast as we can.

(music) - What's popping?

- What's going on?

- Okay, I got your materials.

- All right.

- So it's definitely doable.

- How can we help?

- Um, so, I just wanted to make sure I have everything clear because we did switch from like a bear that's sitting upright.

Right?

'Cause now he's on his stomach, which is, okay.

Look and feel, right?

We just need to look and feel.

So, about here?

- That'd be fine.

- So the thegrindery.org, they went more towards the medical space within the theme.

So, their idea was to basically create this stuffed animal.

They wanted to start with a koala.

We couldn't find a koala to basically repurpose.

So, we went with the Panda and basically the idea was to create this communication device for children while they're in the hospital.

So, loved ones can leave messages, call in.

They originally like wanted to start, like making a bear from scratch.

And I was like, absolutely not.

We don't have time for that.

(laughs) And that is where the like ingenuity of Make48 is.

'Cause sometimes we like we don't have enough time to start that from scratch.

Especially like, as tool techs and like there's only one or two of us that can kind of sew.

So, I'm like if other teams need sewing, I need to be available for everybody.

We gotta spread the sewing in love.

Right?

So, you know, it's like go to the toy store, grab the closest thing that looks like what you want and then let's hack it from there.

Okay.

So, basically he doesn't have like a seam right here, so I'm gonna have to, um, just kind of cut and then go in.

I did wanna double check though.

Are we still doing the sensors on the arms?

- We are.

- Okay, awesome.

- So- - Does it matter which one or?

- No, we need to, that's what we could be doing.

We need to design the sensor or get the little metal piece.

- Okay.

- For you.

- So if I get started with the stomach screen.

- Okay.

- Does that give you enough time to design the sensor part?

- Yeah.

And then that's the piece, - Okay.

- That we talked about that goes into one of the arms.

- Okay.

Okay.

All right.

So yeah.

I'm going to go ahead, basically cut him open.

And actually I think I can go in from his side seam.

- Okay - Slide in there, take some stuffing out.

(laughs) A little harsh.

- Yeah.

- Go ahead.

- Like surgery.

- Yeah, pop him in there.

Make a nice finish edge, sew around it as best as I can.

And then, (tongue click) - Okay, - Go from there.

- You want this yet?

- Not yet.

If you- - Or do you want me to get the two other things?

- Yeah.

If you feel like.

I would rather you have everything figured out size wise and all that stuff, but I'll leave him open.

- Okay.

- It's gonna take me a little bit of time.

- Okay.

Um.

So, we're talking, we'll put him on the side right there, about three inches.

- Okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's doable.

It looks like he's got a seam right here so I can open him up.

- Right.

Um.

And so we'll work on it.

We'll go from inside.

We need to put the tape around this.

What do they call it?

12?

- Electrical tape?

- No - Ultra 12 tape.

Yes.

- That around the metal as well?

- Yeah, basically what I'm gonna do, especially on this one, since this glass is thicker.

I'm gonna double it up and basically I'm just gonna keep building it up until it's a border, then slide it in and then sew, - Okay.

- Yep.

- Cool.

So we'll work on the other little piece.

- All right.

- Thank you so much.

- Come on, get to going.

- The tool techs are very important to the weekend in that the teams can concentrate on the more important tasks of getting a sellable product and getting the idea in front of the judge and pass off any of the skills that need to be utilized to make the prototype.

They can say, "Here's the idea I have" and pass it off to some, to one of the tool techs to do that heavy lifting, do that laborious work.

Then they can get back to doing more project management and product determination.

- Scuba is thinner than neoprene.

- Oh really?

- Yes, so, you would, you would want to get the one that says scuba.

- Another one yard for.

This is alternative fabric.

- Yeah, so, any fabric you get in one yard.

- Okay.

- Um.

- Can the person put it on themselves?

- Yes.

- We don't want it tight enough that they could get it.

- No, and so, that's why I was saying if you got something with some give, with that lacing system, with the Velcro, because like y'all said, this is something that they gonna wear short time.

That they're not keeping this on their arm, on the cast the whole time.

I would, I would really take some time, get the Vel- get the nylon, feel it, and then go to basically the section that looks like dance costume material.

(laughter) Look at that.

And just kind of think about that.

Even take it off the bolt a little bit, wrap it around your arm and just kinda see what that feels like.

- So we are approaching this from, to an angle of teaching the kids about art.

So, we are kind of reinventing the light bright and creating a panel where kids can learn about color mixing and color theory as well as different modern art styles.

- So basically we're using a rocket launch system to figure out the angle of trajectory and the force, the force that a child pushes down on the rocket launch, the pressure bag, and calculate the distance and the angle.

And we're gonna have targets at a certain distance away with a trajectory sheet where they can view their, view and improve on, you know, how hard they, how hard they hit the bag, the distance and the weight.

We'll have variable weights that we can put in the top, tip of the rocket so that it varies the angle of trajectory.

So, that they can further learn how, you know, how it all works and ties together.

And then basically, you know, if he hits the, the bag, go for it.

(scoffs) - That's half the battle.

Right?

(music) - Alright, teams, we are almost at the 24 hour mark.

And that means it is time for focus groups.

You're gonna have 10 minutes with your focus group.

And that includes the time for question and answers.

So it's gonna be tight, make sure you get as much out of that focus group as you can.

Good?

Have fun guys.

(applause) - [Narrator] On the next episode of Make 48, the teams get an opportunity to present to a focus group of parents and children.

- So if you're making a beat, can you, like, if you play the beat, can you like save that beat, into like somewhere to save it?

- Um, you know, we haven't actually thought about that, but that's a great idea.

- [Narrator] And the competition picks up as the building continues.

Make 48 is funded by: - [Woman] Stanley Black & Decker provides tools and services around the globe to help turn great ideas into reality.

And to help us shape the world we live in.

We proudly support programming that inspires invention, innovation, and hard work.

Together with Make48, we're providing men and women, the tools and resources to build a better world.

Stanley Black & Decker.

For those who make the world.

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] To learn more about the invention process and to get to know the teams visit, make48.com music