Dragon Innovation (acquired by Avnet in 2017) provides solutions for the fastest, simplest, and safest way for companies to manage manufacturing complex products at scale. Founded in 2009 by the leadership team at iRobot who launched and scaled the first 4MM Roomba®s, Dragon Innovation has deep experience with high-volume electro-mechanical products. Our customer portfolio, encompassing both early stage and established companies, includes Ring, Dropcam, Shopify, SharkNinja, American Kennel Club, Sphero, Makerbot, reMarkable, Theragun, Coravin, and many more of the top name brands in innovative technology.
Dragon’s team-located in Cambridge, MA, Seattle, WA, Shenzhen, China, Hong Kong, HK, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands-focuses on the path from Prototype to Production with unmatched human expertise that simplifies and de-risks the New Product Introduction (NPI) process. Over the last decade, Dragon Innovation has been a manufacturing
I learned SolidWorks and Blender during covid and that lead me into getting some FDM 3d printers. From there I've started playing with 3D printing molds and pouring resin in (silicone, so far). That workflow is a total game-changer for quick prototyping.
Hi, thanks alot for your valuable time spent on these videos,it's greatly helpful, I'm working in start up company as design engineer. Management has requested to push the build more towards automation where I'm concerned that the product cost is going to shoot high compared to manual assembly. It would be good to know if which design would suit us..it's a new concept consumer electronics product. We are not very sure about the numbers as yet.. expected to reach demand
Thanks for sharing, Scott! Your laser cutter and your 3D printer are light-years ahead of my generic laser cutter and my old FlashForge 3D printer, but where's your CNC cutter (for molds and metal parts) and your reflow oven (for your PCB prototypes)? I think a sequel is warranted!
Scott, a great desktop tool to add to your collection is a Carvey. Similar to Markforged browser based client, very easy intro to CNC and safe for kids w/interlocks and easy built-in design software. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a9LpGpt5a7g.html
Hi Scott! Big fan here from India. I am connected with you on linkedin and am looking for ways to speak with you to plan my product. Hopefully will get that chance soon. My best regards
Very impressive that you were able to diagnose the problem and put the thing back together. With how cheap nerf blasters are, so many mechanical features are molded into the 2 part shell that even taking it apart can cause random parts to fall out with no obvious way to put back in place. This is an area where I think airsoft is simply a lot more consumer friendly as most of the parts are completely interchangeable. But I don't find Onyx to be a great material for gears since it has an abrasiveness to it, but you can actually run Taulman 910 nylon through a markforge and get pretty good results. You just need to place some dummy parts so that the extruder never pulls to the corner to let the part cool before starting the next layer. The retraction settings are tuned only for Onyx so you end up with strings on the outside if the extruder isnt constantly printing.
I just want to understand the series of events that led to this. I cannot imagine this even as a novelty/gag product. So much effort for something. I am curious if the trigger mechanism would have other applications
This was a grat class. Its a shame the low audio quality, some things scaped my understanding. What I really didnt understand is What you mean about IP and about having ties with the goberment. I never made something outside my country, but right now I thinking about place an order of a rotomolding mold
as a landlord i like to install one feeding each suite to keep tabs on leaky toilet's and disgruntle tenants inline version ? just had a 3000$ water bill
Hi Clint - Sorry if unclear. The link I sent you has the video, but if you scroll down, you can access the accompanying powerpoint slides which are exactly what are shown on the monitor in the video. I hope that helps, that's the best we have at the moment.
Good information but you camera guy ... and the window glare on the screen, we can't see over half of what you show ... just would like to have seen the examples. Thanks for the info tho. Do you offer mold design services? Thanks
Hey Clint -- Thanks for the feedback and yes, we definitely would love to improve the quality of these (on the long list of things to do!). If helpful, we have the accompanying slides here: blog.dragoninnovation.com/2014/07/25/dfm-course-5-injection-molding/ And then we don't offer mold design services, rather we support our customers to select qualified factories with the capabilities to support their injection molding requirements. Feel free to hit our website (dragoninnovation.com) to learn more.
The mold maker will take the cad files, which should be designed at the desired nominal dimensions of the part, and then will account for the material shrinkage in designing the actual cavity of the mold.
Hi Adam, We have the accompanying slide presentations on our blog - here's the link to the Injection Molding slides: blog.dragoninnovation.com/2014/07/25/dfm-course-5-injection-molding/ Thanks!
Can they make one without triangulation...now that would be impressive... i just thought of how it can be done. i want to do the fancy talking one day lol
Great videos, although from a studying and taking notes point of view it would be helpful to have the summary slides shown for long enough to be copied down, e.g 30 seconds, as trying to hit pause on the video when they come up isn't the most exhilarating task.
+nomoreheroes93 Hey there! Thanks for the feedback. The accompanying slides are also available on our blog if that might be helpful: blog.dragoninnovation.com/category/design-for-manufacturing-course/page/2/
