Kirkby Box (laser-cut tool box)
A simple glued plywood tool box cut on a laser cutter. Single-sheet SVG layout for 3mm plywood.
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Ready-to-cut SVG and DXF templates for laser cutters: boxes, living hinges, joints, signs, puzzles and mechanisms. Check the material thickness each file was drawn for.
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A simple glued plywood tool box cut on a laser cutter. Single-sheet SVG layout for 3mm plywood.
Gift/keepsake box with double walls; the four side walls are one living-hinge piece bent around the corners. Engrave text or designs on the lid.
Plywood boxes that snap together without glue and stack on each other. Single SVG.
Open-front parts bins in 4-inch and 6-inch widths that stack for shop, office or craft-room organization.
Small snap-fit acrylic enclosure to protect an Arduino XBee module; a good minimal electronics-enclosure starting point.
A plain finger-jointed open box and a universal lidded box generated by the Boxes.py generator, provided as ready-to-cut SVGs. Good starter templates; make custom sizes at boxes.hackerspace-bamberg.de.
Edge-lit acrylic sign: files for engraving the acrylic panel plus a laser-cut holder for the LED strip. Swap in your own artwork.
Snap-together clear acrylic tree that displays 28 pairs of earrings.
Several minimalist wall-clock face designs cut from a single sheet, built around a cheap quartz clock movement.
Hinged laser-cut piece divided into 15-degree segments that unrolls from a unit circle into a sine curve, for trig classes.
Manipulative that shows the ambiguous case of the law of sines (two possible triangles for a fixed angle and side).
Fold-up cardboard voussoir bricks; cut nine and students can assemble a self-supporting Roman arch.
Student-buildable laser-cut microscope costing roughly $0.40 to $3.50 depending on lens choice, with 3D-printed objective and eyepiece holders.
Laser-cut and engraved folding sundial (the traditional farmer's clock) for finding local solar time.
Simple interlocking letter/word puzzle pieces made to help a young child sound out longer words; single SVG.
A sample set of living-hinge (lattice/kerf-bend) patterns, plus the straight pattern at a range of spacings, so you can test which flexes best in your material.
Pieces that interlock on all four sides, so a single tile can be copied to build structures bigger than the laser bed.
Hands-on model of the Geneva drive (intermittent rotary motion), built as a classroom teaching tool.
Functional rubber-band-driven model of Galileo's pendulum clock escapement, for teaching gears, stored energy and escapements.
Simple working model of Leonardo da Vinci's cam-driven hammer for students to identify the simple machines inside it.
Wall clock whose hands are driven through a laser-cut planetary gearbox by a stepper motor and Arduino. DXFs for sun, planet and ring gears, carrier, hands and plates.
A simple multi-gear train cut from 9mm MDF and glued up; single SVG drawing.
Tabletop dice tower with internal ramps and a catching tray that doubles as a lid; generated by Boxes.py.
Classroom tutorial on designing a jigsaw puzzle for laser or CNC, with a generic puzzle-piece template SVG and an example sliced design.
Simple beginner weekend-project jigsaw puzzle with the cut file in EPS and AI.
All symbols for a full 144-tile Mahjong set, fronts and backs, laid out to fit one 450 x 800 mm sheet.
Slot-together 3D dinosaur skeleton model in 29 pieces, supplied as per-piece DXF files.
Laser-cut gorilla puppet with a servo-driven arm and touch sensor, designed for beginner Arduino workshops.
A jig for holding stock at an angle inside a laser cutter so edges can be cut at a bevel, plus a stepped drill-bit stand.
Test plate that engraves a grid of speed/power combinations so you can see how settings affect engraving in a given material.
Open-top organizer that holds CNC cutters upright so you can see and pick them, with a side compartment for misc tools.