The pool noodle never made sense. Of all the odd concoctions in those frantic early days, that’s where they lost me. Golfer ...

We especially love the DIY darts that [Michael] came up with, which are made from a PVC tube inside a section of pool noodle, topped off with a 3D printed piece for that distinctive orange cap.

Using a couple of few inflatable pool noodles for quick prototyping, his experiments quickly showed some of the strengths and weaknesses of soft robots. Most of the soft robots we see require an ...