thermoforming!

For our mass pro class we learned about thermoforming. Now that I know about it and its process, I see it being used everywhere.

 

Anyway for our group, we decided to make a food box. We picked the logo design for this year's tee-shirt, put it in CAD and sent it to the CNC machine. I was pretty glad we did it that way because the CNC is so much faster and you can get all sorts of cool things cut out of the wood vs making the mold by hand (which is what many of my classmates were doing)
The first time seeing the thermoforming machine work its magic was was soooo fascinating. After the 6th time however, not so much. Actually, for our first trial run of the lid, we couldn't get the plastic off the mold. All three shop technitions had to pull on it...Two holding the plastic and one holding the wood mold. In the end I think we had to cut it out. From then on, we used a demolding spray thing which helped a LOT. hehe.

Teagan!

I''m slowly trying to restock this blog lol, so to continue the story, I ended up choosing the name Teagan. Partly because it has the word Tea in it, and partly becauase I was listening to Teagan and Sara and talking to my friend Sara.

Anyway, here are my final boards. I wish I pushed the idea further, but I think I would have discovered that it was already manufactured or on its way to be manufactured by somebody else. Because this year I found someone with the exact same product -- in material and proportion. : (    great minds think alike? maybe?

problem statement, specs, use cycle:

 

I think this also marks the first time I've used hypershot to render and photoshop to add things to my work (like tea and water and leaves).

Teagan?

My latest project is to solve an everyday problem. I decided to tackle the tea making process... Anyway I'm currently working on my boards, and I'm in need of a name.. Currently my list has been shortened down to:
*Teagan
*thea
*tia
*toro
*ros
*tummus

Perhaps I should lucky draw it.