Week 9 - Compisites

How to Make (Almost) Anything - Manolis Zampetakis

Boomerang

Boomerang is a curved throwing stick used chiefly by the Australian Aborigines for hunting. Boomerang was first described in details and recorded as a "boumarang" in 1822. On the language of the Turuwal tribe of the George’s River (Sydney) ‘boomarang’ means a throwing stick that comes back.

This week we are trying to construct an object that looks like a boomerang.

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Design

We started with the design of the Mobius strip in Fusion 360.

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Making the Mold

We then usedthe CNC machine of the EDS Lab to fabricate the foam in the shape of the boomerang.

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The we cutted out the unused part of the foam.

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Fabricating the boomerang

We started by cutting the poke into the appropriate shape.

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Then we followed the instructions of the plastic material and we put it to the vaccum bag.

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Lessons Learned

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