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The Industrial Design Prototyping Process, Part 5: Building the Main Body & Base Plate

Here in Part 5, the prototype of the mobile solar charging platform gets a body and base plate. Industrial designer Eric Strebel, founder of Botzen Design, shows how he turns a chunk of Ren modeling foam into the body on a more old-school tool than the laser cutter he used last time, this time going with a lathe. He also cuts a base plate for the unit out of styrene. 

Thus far it’s great to see the combination of old-school manual and new-school digital tools used in Strebel’s prototyping process.