that's cute, I have some fairly large chunks of cardboard, just got a 10cu/ft fridge and also the box for one of my ebikes (that one is heavy cardboard). If someone with a van / suv can come by and grab it. May have some higher density foam too. I would think the 'gears' maybe from foamboard vs normal cardboard.. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Doug Philips <dgou@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Ran across this today: > > http://nerdstink.com/post/44631983969/a-functional-mini-plotter-made-with-cardboard > > Thought it might be a cool kind-of-thing to do for our Mini Maker Faire this > year. (Aug 18th) Or rather to riff on and do a version of. > Maybe re-animate Matt's Cheese printer in faux Medieval hand-driven form? > :-) > > It seems there are an increasing number of cardboard based maker projects, > and that's something I'd like to play around with. > > Figured I'd toss it out to see if anyone else is interested. We get a fair > amount of cardboard going through the shop from our snacks, boxes etc. > > And yes, I'm thinking of cardboard, treated, for a balloon payload too. :-) > > -=Doug >