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The Dio-Yo

Friday, December 11th, 2009

In Brief

Autumn quar­ter of the 2009–2010 school year, I was in a class called “Design and Man­u­fac­tur­ing” (ME203). We were tasked with–you guessed it–designing and man­u­fac­tur­ing some­thing of our choos­ing, as long as it was made of metal or plas­tic, and had more than one part. Hav­ing been a big fan of the yoyo craze when I was a kid, I fig­ured this was a great oppor­tu­nity to finally get an amaz­ing yoyo to do crazy tricks with. I would cre­ate a beau­ti­ful, high-performance object in Stanford’s car­di­nal red. Ladies and gen­tle­men, I present to you: The Dio-Yo.

Design Process

I’m cur­rently trans­fer­ring my log­book into dig­i­tal form, so I’ll be fill­ing this in later. Check back soon for a full run down of how I cre­ated it from start to fin­ish. In the mean­time, I’m sure you want to see proof it works, so check out the video below (or click here to see it at youtube).

The Yoyo In Action