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2.008 Design and Manufacturing II

Injection-Molded & Thermoformed Yoyos

Manufactured 100 injection-molded and thermoformed yoyos, learning mass-manufacturing process and quality-control design.

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Highlights

Designed and machined an injection mold, then ran a 100-unit production batch
Learned design-for-manufacturing principles for high-volume processes and quality control

Machined injection mold — Machined aluminum injection mold

Row of thermoformed plastic pucks — Thermoformed shell blanks

Grid of 100 finished yoyos — Full production run of 100 yoyos

Two finished yoyos — Finished yoyos