Locky: The Laser-Cut Tile Construction Set
The file 'Locky: The Laser-Cut Tile Construction Set' is (svg) file type, size is 18.7KB.
The file 'Locky: The Laser-Cut Tile Construction Set' is (svg) file type, size is 18.7KB.
Do you have weekly delivery boxes from a food company like Blue Apron, Green Chef, or Imperfect Produce? Perhaps you get a lot of Amazon boxes? As long as they're roughly 3mm thick corrugated cardboard, you can recycle all those scrap boxes into Locky construction tiles!
At the moment, there are three tile shapes to choose from. In the single-wide realm, you get the square and the circle. There is also a double-wide rectangle that has convenient pencil-diameter holes, in the off-chance you want an axle or pivot. All pieces are 100% interchangeable and can be used together.
On the Glowforge, it takes me about 8 minutes to make a set of 8 tiles. These are the settings I use for the attached SVG files:
Update, 2019-03-02: I've added a roof, with etched shingles. As you can see in the picture, you can fold it to two or three slots in length, depending on how steep you'd like the roof to be.
| locky_8_round_pieces.svg | 89.3KB | |
| locky_8_square_pieces.svg | 87.1KB | |
| locky_double_square.svg | 74.1KB | |
| locky_roof.svg | 148.2KB |
