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Product Development and Manufcturing
Rocket Launching Machine
The DPEA held its annual senior project showcase. Students were allowed to come and see the different projects, which the seniors had been working on. We talked to people involved in Product Development and Manufacturing. These are the people who create designs for particular parts in CAD, and additionally manufacture parts not made on some of the larger CNC mills.
Paper aircraft launching machine at the DPEA showcase. Leo Quinkert photo.
The process isn’t easy; there are a lot of hiccups involved with product manufacturing and development.
“The whole point of product development is failing, and then learning from your failures.” August —— said. “When we first made the wave machine for the first two months, just failing, trying to make stuff work.”
Rocket launching machine at the DPEA showcase. Leo Quinkert photo.