mityoyo2018Dec 12, 20185 min readThe Blizzard to End Them AllReflecting back to the beginning of the semester, we have come such a long way. Our first designs were definitely very ambitious...
mityoyo2018Dec 6, 20182 min readSnow Close To The EndThis week, we finished manufacturing all 50 of our yo-yos! There were a lot of important lessons learned from our production run. Because...
mityoyo2018Nov 29, 20181 min readForecast Calls for... Production Runs!We're in full-on production run! Despite the brief hiatus with Thanksgiving break, we've been hard at work on the injection molding...
mityoyo2018Nov 16, 20181 min readFirst PartsThis week, we finished at least one injection molding run of each part of our yoyo. You can read details here. The most exciting part is...
mityoyo2018Nov 7, 20182 min readShoveling through a (Snow) Pile of WorkThis week we focused on finishing machining the molds and we began to print our first parts. Body and Snap Ring This week we continued to...
mityoyo2018Nov 1, 20182 min readBrr...roadblocks This week, our team began machining our first molds, injection molding them, machining the shoulder bolts for the body, as well as 3D...
mityoyo2018Oct 25, 20181 min readMolds and MoreAfter receiving feedback from the Design Review, we immediately jumped back to work, making revisions to the CAD design and then moving...
mityoyo2018Oct 17, 20182 min readBrrrrrrracing for the Design ReviewAs the title suggests, the biggest challenge for our group this week was preparing for the Design Review. One key takeaway from the...
mityoyo2018Oct 10, 20181 min readFreezing the DesignAfter meeting in lab to discuss our current design we decided that we needed to think through what we were going to build a bit more...
mityoyo2018Oct 4, 20181 min readPreparing For The Snow(-yo)StormAfter our brainstorm last week, our team decided to do a winter themed yoyo. We landed on a snow globe yoyo, and we spent this week...
mityoyo2018Sep 26, 20181 min readResults of First Brain(snow)stormThe team gets to gather to think of ideas and decide on an idea. This week our team got together to throw around some ideas for our yo-yo...
mityoyo2018Sep 21, 20181 min readAbout UsMeet the team! We are: - Nicolas Arons, a course 2 junior interested in robotics - Katie Henshaw, a course 2 junior excited to get into...