So for my CAD design create class, we have to design something that has components, to be either lasercut or 3D printed. I thought I should make something useful, so after many many many different ideas, I decided to make a box/vessel of some description that could hold my needles in a convenient way that would allow for easy use, they deserve their own home after all - they are such a useful little tool! so..no longer getting lost in my pin cushion or stuck in my cork board, they will have their own new home in this box, with their friends - the thread, and other useful bits and bobs.
this is just a cardboard prototype, which is pretty close to what I will eventually get lasercut out of felt. minus those two notches that I thought were needed...but not...after all! I'm glad they won't live in this cardboard box forever, the part where the needles sit in is already tearing away! which shouldn't happen with the felt.
these are all the different parts that will be lasercut out of this delicious grey felt in I think 3mm thick.
http://www.ponoko.com/make-and-sell/show-material/62-felt-gray
took me so long to get my head around those sly tabs.
finally. a prototype that works. hurrrah. sleep time it is!
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