The Race Ends!
Our Story Final Yo-Yo Description Our final yo-yo is an assembly with four main parts as well as a stand that it rests on. The assembly consists of two body parts that screw into each other and two custom-made parts that snap onto the body parts. Inspired by the theme of the fable The Tortoise and the Hare by Aesop, one of the custom parts is a turtle shell with the head insert-molded, and the other is a hare body with the tail insert-molded. The yo-yo is entirely injection-molded and the stand is thermoformed. The turtle half of the yo-yo consists of a lime green body part and a caramel-colored shell. The shell was probably one of the hardest parts to make because the intricate pattern of the mold for the shell had to be 3D-machined on the Haas. It took multiple tries for the machining to work, and the machine cycle time for the engraving of the shell was around five to six hours. We cut out felt pieces for the head because our vision was to have something li