What would you ask Santa's elves to make for you?
Just over a year ago the idea of a DIY 3D printed toy with moving parts seemed a little far off. Then Kparanya uploaded their Toy Car with Captive Wheels. Since then we’ve seen all kinds of multi-part toys uploaded to Thingiverse including lots of puzzles, a transformer, and Beco building blocks.
Although I use my Cupcake CNC to print a lot of tools and things to assist with repairs, what I really love using it for is printing toys – especially those I’ve designed. At the moment I’m really enamored with the idea of designing an open source disc shooter. But, this is just something which interests me.
If you had a MakerBot at your disposal, what kind of toy would you want to design? I suppose another way to ask this question is, “If you had one of Santa’s elves at your disposal to create any toy imaginable, what would you ask for?”
If there’s enough interest, perhaps I could do a series on the process of brainstorming, designing, creating a proof of concept, prototyping, and creating a polished design for a toy. (Although, I suspect this process is reasonably similar for any kind of inventing) Leave a comment and let me know what you’d like to see!
