Transportation/trucking/railroad - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Our team, The Diggeridoos, was founded in September of 2020 following the announcement of The Boring Company's Not-a Boring Competition. Shortly after that a team was formed and the design of a small scale tunnel boring machine (TBM) was started. The team developed a conceptual design which progressed to a preliminary design and then a detailed final design. Out of nearly 400 applicants, the team's concept was chosen as 1 of 12 teams to compete in this year's competition. Our team is developing new ways of tunnel boring which will be implemented into this year's machine. Since the original founding of the team, we have grown into a 35 member strong engineering design team.