Pacman cookie cutters !

Probably you can buy them ready made but I'd like to show you a way to make them yourself off scrap materials. Gobble gobble gobble!

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Step 1: Materials needed

You need some thin scrap metal, you can buy it in from the hardware store buy it's more fun to recycle something designed to be otherwise useless and environmentally negative. The one I used I took from a metal box of bottle of whiskey.
I had already used the original red/yellow cover of the case as the ground plane for a WiFi patch antenna (see two of the pictures below).
Materials needed:
Scrap metal sheet
Pliers, rib joint pliers
Scissors
Permanent marker
Round pencil
Hard ruler
Square angle ruler
A book
Hard gloves
Safety glasses
Round shaped knick-knack
Template for Pacman, Paul ( and Steve and Matthew)
Sugar, flour, butter, eggs...you know for what.

jtobako says: Mar 11, 2007. 10:08 AM

on old (and some new) cookie cutters the seam is soldered. just an excuse to play with fire : )

LasVegas in reply to jtobakoMar 11, 2007. 9:50 PM

More often I see them spot welded. Soldering is fine, but the amount of lead-free solder required would be expensive. Besides, I find the crimping technique attractive.

jtobako in reply to LasVegasMar 12, 2007. 3:00 PM

about a penny's worth of solder is not expensive.

5Volt (author) in reply to jtobakoMar 13, 2007. 6:14 AM

I chose crimping because it looked cleaner to me. In the long run solder might become weak and eventually break. Also, everybody might have cutting and crimping ability while soldering can be very frustrating to someone. A strong (not for electronics) solder would be necessary, in case. Spot welding would be the best probably, but definitely out of my reach. Also, I like origami ... Ciao

jtobako in reply to 5VoltMar 13, 2007. 12:27 PM

i understand compleately. i just wanted to throw out the idea that there were other options if someone wanted it.

karen608 says: Mar 12, 2007. 7:19 AM

As is very decorative with painted sides. and i like the join, very creative. Now any shape can be a cookie cutter/cookie. Just mail the cookies to instructables, as they make all this possible. The reason the boy is screaming in cartoon is: he's not wearing oven mitts. He's not afraid of the fire one bit. Cool cartoon.