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In December 2011, the Instructables Team took to the streets of San Francisco, proudly wielding before them a 12-foot cardboard Trojan horse. Man, I...
First, I needed a 3D model. Rather than use someone else's model of a Trojan horse, I decided to design my own from scratch. I knew that I wanted the...
I then imported the model into a preview version of 123D Make. At the time of writing, the publicly available version of 123D Make does not include th...
I opted for the rivet joinery method, as this automatically provides overlapping tabs and holes in the appropriate places on each panel. I spent a whi...
Once I had all of my horse flesh exported as EPS vector files, then I began the arduous process of laser-cutting each piece using our Epilog laser. Al...
One brave morning, randofo and I set to putting all of this cardboard together. We started with the horse's head and quickly got into a good rhythm. ...
We adopted a policy of keeping all the long tails of the plastic zip tie connectors pointing inwards so that the horse would look clean and unblemishe...
I can't recommend this method of joining sheets of cardboard using plastic zip ties high enough. They're fantastic! My first plan had been to glue eve...
By the end of the first day, we had the head and the front legs of the horse assembled. Future plans for a giant chess set were vaguely circling in my...
Here you can see all the tails of the zip ties pointing inwards. Standing inside the hollow horse was a surreal, tree-house-like feeling, with light f...
As we came closer to completion, it became harder and harder to connect the pieces of the horse together. Often, we had to hang precariously from ladd...
Connecting the head was a three-person effort. The finished horse stood at 12 feet tall. The ceiling of the Instructables Lab is only 10 feet high. Lu...
So, in just under a week, we had a giant cardboard Trojan horse. 3D modeling meets quick fabrication. The possible meets the absurd. Papercraft meets ...
During the first night that the horse stood in the Lab, the cardboard slightly buckled under its own weight, causing the horse's head to sag noticeabl...
I made a four-wheeled dolly from 2x4s and plywood. The sheets of plywood were reinforced from below and positioned so that each one would support one ...
The next stage was to rebuild the whole structure outside. This was not nearly as hard as it might sound; we simple divided the horse's hide into thre...
And so began the epic journey from the Instructables Lab to the Autodesk headquarters for the company Christmas party. Pulled by our fearless leader, ...
On the horse's first outing it encountered low-hanging branches, high-rising curbs and slow-moving pedestrians. It navigated all of them with gusto an...
We kept one person on either side of the horse throughout the journey. Although it never threatened to tip over, we felt reassured that there would be...
Alas, when we arrived at gates of Autodesk's city fortress we found ourselves barred from entry. "Your horse is too tall," we were told. "We'll make ...
I'm not going to claim that bringing a 12-foot horse to a verbal disagreement is a good negotiating tactic, but it does lend a certain frisson to the ...
In the end, we parked the horse on the Embarcadero, under the watchful gaze of some very uncertain police officers. We took turns keeping an eye on th...
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