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Step 5The Board- Made of Lego!
The polystyrene board worked fine, but we wanted to build a board that
-would look more professional than the polystyrene grid,
-would be easy and fast to make,
-would be as sturdy and durable as possible,
-would be as cheap as possible.
The answer to these questions came after a short while: we would make a rubber mold from a first "master" board, then make copies of it using the sturdiest and cheapest material available.
There was a problem, though: How could we make a master board in one piece with no seams, or gaps? ...
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*several weeks of ... ... later*
Perhaps, Lego?
And so I gathered all the Lego blocks I had at home and built a first grid (see below). I was extremely lucky that the cubes fit perfectly inside, and I even made some fake lego blocks too. As you can see I ran out of flat cover pieces pretty soon, so I used the Lego digital designerLego digital designer application to make a 3D model of the Grid, and then I ordered only the top flat pieces.
The second picture shows the finished Lego Grid. Note that it has no base (you can see the table). All that there's needed to make a Lego Board is to add flat panels to cover the base.
The Lego Board looks really nice, but the blocks for a single board cost around 90 euros -I only needed the top flat blocks, and still I paid 20 euros for them-. Too expensive for "mass production", so we kept on with the plan and moved on to...
-would look more professional than the polystyrene grid,
-would be easy and fast to make,
-would be as sturdy and durable as possible,
-would be as cheap as possible.
The answer to these questions came after a short while: we would make a rubber mold from a first "master" board, then make copies of it using the sturdiest and cheapest material available.
There was a problem, though: How could we make a master board in one piece with no seams, or gaps? ...
...
...
*several weeks of ... ... later*
Perhaps, Lego?
And so I gathered all the Lego blocks I had at home and built a first grid (see below). I was extremely lucky that the cubes fit perfectly inside, and I even made some fake lego blocks too. As you can see I ran out of flat cover pieces pretty soon, so I used the Lego digital designerLego digital designer application to make a 3D model of the Grid, and then I ordered only the top flat pieces.
The second picture shows the finished Lego Grid. Note that it has no base (you can see the table). All that there's needed to make a Lego Board is to add flat panels to cover the base.
The Lego Board looks really nice, but the blocks for a single board cost around 90 euros -I only needed the top flat blocks, and still I paid 20 euros for them-. Too expensive for "mass production", so we kept on with the plan and moved on to...
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