3lephant
I've finished up the model of my elephant and sliced it, and also started putting together physical prototypes. He is so cute, I'm pretty happy with my final model. The first wood prototype I made wasn't scaled to the material thickness correctly when prepping it to be lasercut, so he turned out really wide. He looks more like an aardvark or something, honestly. My original method for having the ears made up of individual slices proved to not work (of which I do not have documentation of unfortunately) because some of the slices near the tips of the ear shapes were just way too small for the lasercutter to cut, let alone cut the tiny spacers that would go in between them. I decided to change the design so it would be made of one singular cut piece that would slat into the slices horizontally. Ideally. My second attempt at a physical prototype, I decided to use cardboard so that expensive material is not unnecessarily wasted again. This time, he looks al