Water Park Climbing Wall

In a final year project for my Mechanical Design course, we were assigned a group task of designing a feature for a water park that utilised expended energy of the user to power the system. Our solution was a rotating climbing wall, similar in design to a treadmill, which used the weight of the user to drive the belt and power the motor. The input energy was used to power various devices in the system which made the wall interactive; one of these devices being a water squirter which would spray an opponent if the children were racing. One of the core aims of this project was to combat sedentary behaviour in children, so it was critical that the system encouraged and required the users to expend energy to achieve a gratifying result.