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IDIN Build-It: Wooden Spoon

Materials and tools Envisioning the spoon inside the wood

Trace an existing spoon… …Make your own

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Saw off the excess

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Hollow out with a chisel

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Build-Its are published by IDIN. The International Development Innovation Network (IDIN) is a consortium funded through USAID’s Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN) that supports leading universities to catalyze the development and application of innovative science, technology, and engineering approaches and tools to solve some of the world’s most challenging development problems.

The wooden spoon featured here was created as an activity for the International Development Design Summit. The document was created by Benji Moncivaiz in collaboration with IDIN representatives at UC-Davis and Olin College.

Clamp against the waste for easier

filing

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File down the sides

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Sanding Variations