About Us
The designer
I am Baptiste Vanotti, creator of Suppa, I am a high school student passionate about the world of industry and especially plastics processing. I love creating projects using 3D design/production on a computer.
Suppa's story
Medication pipette holder
Looking for a solution
In 2023, I had to take medicine in liquid form with a pipette. I realized that I didn't know where to put the pipette and that the drops were sticking to my nightstand. That's when I started looking for a solution to this problem...
First suppa
Using 3D modeling software, I created and printed a first pipette support, simple but effective...
These were three extrusions of rectangles with an underextrusion of a circle to pass the pipette through. There was still no place to put the bottle and the pipette together.
The start of the project
Seeing that this product interested many people, I started to design and think about the pipette support, considering a receptacle to place the bottle...
And this is how Suppa One was born...
The arrival of a new prototype
Although Suppa One is suitable for grouping pipette and bottle, it is less practical for transport. I had thought about a version of Suppa One made in two parts that fit together, but that was not practical. So a new model was needed...
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So I started to think about a model designed to fit into the Doliprane baby medication box, with dimensions of 6 cm², which leaves very little space to contain everything.
This model is the one that required the most design with many stages and prototypes. The resulting product is solid, ergonomic and above all stylish.
This product will become... Suppa Two ...
Vanotee Research
Solving a problem encountered
I have been playing golf for a long time, and I have encountered a problem: golf tees, often made of plastic, break or get lost easily, which is very annoying. So I started looking for a solution...
To solve a first problem: the loss
The most common problem with golf tees is that we lose them, we have to buy them in large quantities each time to lose them again, which is not very economical and ecological because we often leave them after playing, that's why I thought of a solution: connect the tees together with a string, and that's when the first vanotee was born in 2023, it was sold in two golf courses and was very popular. There were 6 tees of different sizes that were pierced and connected with a string.
To solve a second problem: breakage
So I started by modeling a tee in 3D, with many successive versions, of which this is the first. During an internship at the Pôle de la Plasturgie in Oyonnax, I was able to print my tees in TPU, a plastic that is almost unbreakable due to its flexibility. Although this version is very resistant, it was unusable because it could not sink into the ground. So other improvements had to be made, a process that required a lot of time, thought and many prototypes.
Looking for a 3D printer...
Until now, I made these prototypes with an old generation FDM 3D printer. Not necessarily having the means to invest in new generation machines, I contacted several companies manufacturing 3D printers.
And there, to my great surprise and above all great joy, a brand responded positively to me: Qidi Tech .
A 3D printer that makes my Suppa evolve
Qidi Tech, in order to support my project, generously gave me their latest printer, the largest model, the Qidi X Max 3.
This allowed me to produce high quality Suppa, at great speed, which drastically reduced the price per piece.
