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  How do you make a Digi Stand?

To start off with you need to make a functional model out of cardboard with the right length and width as your stand. After some bookwork we did some experiments with some scrap acrylic (colored plastic) so we know how to make our stand later on.

We used the heat gun to heat the plastic to bend it. There are two types of bending, free bending which you use your hands to bend the plastic after it is heated. There is also formal bending which is when you use a bending tool to shape the plastic.

We also need to sand the edges with sandpaper until all the edges are fine. After the experiments we got to work on are stands . There were a few choices of colors of plastic. I chose dark see throw red plastic. First Mr Barton cut our designs out of the big pieces of plastic. Then we sanded the edges until they were fine. After that we bended the plastic until it was done. Then we had a picture of us and are product.



 by Ben and Nathaniel