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Setting up our first (SNAP)SHOTS!

It's crunch time now! This week we made a lot of great progress and now have a more concrete plan for the rest of the semester. Here is our manufacturing schedule for the yolaroid!

Yolaroid Manufacturing Schedule for this last week and the upcoming week

Our biggest achievement this week is we made our first molds in lab! It took us a while to figure out how to use the mill but doing our first bit of machining together was a great learning experience. It didn't take us too long with the staff to start familiarizing ourselves with the mill and our first molds for the Yolaroid body came out really well! Maybe by the end of the semester we will be just as one with the machine as Joe!

First Yolaroid molds!

For lab this week, we are ready to begin injection molding the Yolaroid body as a team. Working as a team to walk through machining the molds as well as injection molding will allow us to split up some work for making the other molds and injection molding pieces for the rest of the semester. In preparation for this week's lab, we also went ahead and finished making edits to the CADs of each piece, CADing the molds for the top and bottom camera pieces, and some of the CAM for each piece. For this week's lab, we are ready to begin injection molding the body and can go ahead and begin machining the molds for the top camera piece. We also plan on getting in our 3D print for the thermoform die out of the way and begin experimenting with printing and thinking about the jig we might need to make.


We're excited to start injection molding and taking our first (SNAP)SHOTS of the Yolaroid! 

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