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Manufacturing 50 yoyos
student in 2.008 Design and Manufacturing II
Cambridge, MA
February – May 2019
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2.008 teaches the engineering considerations of production quality, cost, rate, and flexibility. With five teammates, I worked on a semester long project was to design and manufacture 50 identical yoyos. Learn about the process in our blog.

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brainstorming

my ideas, including the camera lens and bike wheel, were inspired by my hobbies

liking the camera lens, we explored how to make the iris mechanically functional

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initial design

complex!

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final design

much simpler!

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 I designed the

 back body

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we CAMed and CNC machined molds for our 4 injection-molded parts

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 all parts

it works!

(and yos)

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