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If you're the kind to need a low-attention project to keep your hands busy, you can use business cards (or I used index cards, quartered) to make models of this
by Groxx 6y ago
If you're the kind to need a low-attention project to keep your hands busy, you can use business cards (or I used index cards, quartered) to make models of this pretty easily, and they're remarkably durable. No tools needed at all, it's just one pattern repeated as many times as you feel like. The base square unit also makes a decent 6-sided die of whatever size you want.
Other forms of modular origami can also be fun, e.g. five intersecting tetrahedra is similarly just one common paper pattern: http://mars.wne.edu/~thull/fit.html http://mars.wne.edu/~thull/fit.html
- xyzzy_plugh 6y agoOh man, this takes me back to an old job where we all would order business cards, which came in 500 or 1000 card boxes, yet none of us ever had a need to hand them out (I maybe gave out 10, mostly to friends & family). We built so many boxes, and you could connect then together -- it became almost like Lego. At one point we used an empty cubicle as a museum for the creations we made, probably a thousand business cards wasted on cubes!
- odomojuli 6y agoOr: you can even use post-its. From the article: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rougeux/sets/72157621702780335/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/rougeux/sets/72157621702780335...
- Groxx 6y agoWhile both cheap and very reasonably sized in the end... tbh I don't think I'd do this one personally. Assembling cubes smaller than a fingertip is substantially more difficult than something even slightly larger. The "fold each square in half" step does give you at least one sharp edge on every piece though, which helps a bit. That gallery is great though, thanks for the link!
- gorkish 6y agoI have built an M1 sponge from business cards and I cannot fathom the thought of one person doing an M3 in miniature.