{"id":208,"date":"2016-09-02T01:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T09:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2016-09-18T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:15:09","slug":"rapid-prototyping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Prototyping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dollar Tree has big\u00a0sheets of foam board available for… well… a dollar. \u00a0It’s cheap and cuts super fast. \u00a0The edges it leaves are a little fragile because the foam core ‘pulls back’ away from the heat of the laser. \u00a0 that said, it makes an awesome material for rapid prototyping; to realistically show\u00a0the scale or structure of a project before I cut the actual object from wood or plastic.<\/p>\n

Here is the shield and sword Ellen asked me to make, with a couple soda cans for scale. \u00a0The shield was too big to cut from one piece of material, so I had to cut it from smaller pieces and fit them together in a way so that the seams didn’t overlap.<\/p>\n

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The sword, on the other hand, was digitally traced from a screen grab, then cut from one piece of foam. \u00a0But\u00a0it turned out to be too small, and there was an issue with the ergonomics of the handle. \u00a0But it only took 40 seconds to cut, and cost me less than a quarter for materials to find all that out, then\u00a0make the necessary adjustments for the final product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dollar Tree has big\u00a0sheets of foam board available for… well… a dollar. \u00a0It’s cheap and cuts super fast. \u00a0The edges it leaves are a little fragile because the foam core ‘pulls back’ away from the heat of the laser. \u00a0 that said, it makes an awesome material for rapid prototyping; to realistically show\u00a0the scale or … Continue reading Rapid Prototyping<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}