CABLE CLIMBERS
injection molding product realization
DATES:
May - June 2025
Skills:
CAD/CAM
CNC MACHINING
INJECTION MOLDING
Product DEsign
Designed to fit seamlessly in every day life, cable climbers add a little whimsy to an everyday object: chargers.
100 units were realized from concept to product using rapid prototyping, CNC Machining and Injection Molding techniques.
Learning these processes were a cornerstone of my self-selected graduate curriculum. While injection molding is used to create billions of single-use and hard-to-recycle plastic parts today - it is also a standard industrial practice which I wanted to understand end-to-end in order to find a way to make it more circular in the near future.
The final project for ME 325: Making Multiples prompted me to:
Design a part or family of injection molded parts that can be molded in the Product Realization Lab.
Your part(s) should demonstrate some functionality.
The part(s) that you design must: interact in a geometrically specific and meaningful way with multiple copies of itself/themselves and/or should fit/connect with an existing part or assembly
My personal goals with this project were to:
Create something that can be used as a single unit or multiples.
Create many multiples that I can give to friends and family after graduation
Explore family molds and insert molding
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