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Vogelvilla
After our first course, löten und leuchten, the next idea was to create a format for the laser cutter. We were targeting older kids this time, from the year 9 on up. We looked up on 3Axis.co for inspiration and it seemed important to both of us that we would be able to create something large and useful. So a groupwork project seemed ideal and we settled on birdhouses pretty quickly.
At the space, we have a pretty large and powerful Xtool S1, which is capable of cutting up to 10mm plywood.
But a birdhouse, with all its sides, ends up using quite a bit of material, sowe spent quite a bit of prep time optimizing the base design so one hous can be made using only 3 A3 sheets of plywood.
We invented a joint memory game, to incentivize thinking about all the larger possibilities of the laser cutter. During their own process, the kids found out for themselves the pros and cons of modular or reversible design and were designing their own birdhouses entirely in Tinkercad and Xtool Creative Space. We also had a lot of fun with the laser cutter, and the kids were able to create their own designs and engravings. Time Wis
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