A New Box Idea March 15

It has been a few days since we began working on our boxes. The goal for today's class is completing our first box designs. This does not necessarily mean making our final box. I am feeling a bit under pressure since I am still undecided in how to attach my sides.

This is how I was planing to make the box.

Oscar noticed that my box design was going to take me a while to produce so he suggested that I make something similar to Kelsey's idea of making the sides function with hinges. This idea would be faster to draw on inkscape which would give me more time in the class room to test out my designs.

The sides will act like a spring by making lines close together. When the laser cutter makes the incisions they will bend.

To make the sides bendable I will use plastic because wood is more difficult to bend. The sides will be attached with a screw on the end. I tested out a few designs with incisions at different distances. When I tried bending the first design, the plastic sides broke because the cuts were too far from each other. The following design had the sides closer at a distance of .024 instead of .03 however my one inch model broke when I tried to bend the sides. I realized that my design needed to have at least three cuts in the center and six parallel cuts on the sides.

Box design that will use screws. The holes for the screws have not been made.

 I still have to test out this design to see if it will work. Once I have the correct number of cuts that will make the box close I will work on the movable joint.