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Chris Palmer's SlideTab Surface Creation System

Chris Palmer is an origami designer and artist who was among those modern origami designers featured in the documentary Between The Folds by Vanessa Gould. ¹  His most recent contribution to Thingiverse is a SlideTab Surface Creation System designed to replace the usual glue-tab-A-to-flap-A flat materials assembly system.  You have to check out the numerous hats Chris assembled out of this system and Flickr slideshow. ²

Here’s what I thought when I saw his surface creation system – a modular board game where the board could be assembled into a sphere.³

1. This is a must-include for your Netflix queue. [↩]
2. Think: Taj Majal [↩]
3. Or, near enough to a sphere for the casual gamer. [↩]

Will Smith of Tested.com interviewed Bre Pettis at CES 2011 in Las Vegas over the weekend! Bre and Will discussed the improvements of the Thing-O-Matic over the Cupcake CNC as well as share a few printing war stories. ¹

1. My favorite quote from this interview: “4th grade math, happening right here!” [↩]