Make a SQR Game Set

Step 4 The Board- Made of polystyrene

The Board is the structure that holds the cells in place. Since the cells are cubes, the board should provide enough empty spaces for them, and it is important that it has a smaller height than the cells so that they can be easily removed by hand.

There's a straightforward way to make the board:

-design a grid with the size you want here,
-print it in a piece of paper,
-make several copies of it,
-attach each one to a thin piece of polystyrene (depron-s),
-use a x-acto knife to cut the the grid,
-glue several grids on top of another to make the Board as high as you need.

The picture below show the first prototype we made: note that we used the cutouts from the grid to make the cells too :)

This technique is easy, cheap and allows you to use any cube size you want; however, it takes lots of time to cut all those grids and it is not very precise if you do it by hand (a laser cutter would be perfect for this task). We wanted to have a SQR set that looked as nice as possible and that we could replicate quickly and easily in case we needed several of them -for instance, if we organize a tournament-. Therefore, we moved on to...