RFID Interface Cube - Tikitag application showcase contest

Step 2 Making the Cube - part the first

We're going to start by making the cube using the business cards listed earlier, and on which we'll afix the Tikitags. This was inspired by Jeannine Mosely's Menger Sponge out of business cards (see the whole story here) - I designed a similar, smaller structure for my students last year, and using this method to build the cube came quite naturally. You can follow all the steps of the cube's construction on the pictures below.

First pick 2 cards and set them on top of each other, and perpendicularly to each other. The top one should be roughly middle bottom one, then crease along the sides of the top card. Repeat until all twelve cards are creased in the same manner.

Now we're going to use 6 cards for the outer faces of the cube - which will both give it a stronger overall structure and make it look better while allowing us to tell what each Tikitag on the faces of the cube does. You can simply write what each face will do, or paste pictures on the faces, or print the corresponding icons. If you'd rather choose this option, you could use icons from SVG icons - they resize to any dimension using open source program freeware like Inkscape. Once this is done, you can either stick (or tape, if you want to reuse it for a later project) a Tikitag to the back of each of these 6 cards and move on to the next step.

EDIT : I took some time to make a second version of the cube, much closer to a model than to origami. Break out the glue, scissors and click along for part 1, 2 and 3.