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50 Bagel Yo-Yos
Overview
Student in 2.008: Design and Manufacturing II at MIT
Cambridge, MA
February-May 2021
2.008 is the core MIT MechE manufacturing class, which culminates in teams of students designing and manufacturing 50 yo-yos.
Design
After a period of ideation and down-selection, my team chose to manufacturing a sesame bagel with cream cheese. As a New Yorker, I was very excited to work on a bagel-related project.
Measuring a bagel to provide a reference for the yo-yo
Manufacturing
This project involved many manufacturing techniques
including CAD...
Final yo-yo render
...3D printing...
3D-printed molds for thermoforming
...thermoforming...
Thermoformed sesame seeds
...CNC milling...
Milled aluminum molds for injection molding bagel bread and cream cheese
...injection molding...
Practice injection molding run​
Cleaning out old colors from the injection molding machine
...assembly, and teamwork.
One of the 50 final yo-yos