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