Well, here it is, MIT resources and boyhood wonder left alone for too long. As part of the amazing class: How to Make Almost Anything, I came up with some cool software to process 3d models. The program, (written in python), slices a 3d model into layers, which can then be cut and assembled. As an extension, I wrote an add-on that fits each layer to a grid and generates assembly instructions from the grid. Using a custom press fit construction kit and the generated instructions; you can assemble a cool looking 3d representation of the original 3d model.

So, all this cool software magic… what should we make? – Millennium Falcon. Here is a walk through the end-to-end process form CAD model, to model processing, to the final falcon. Modeling was done in Solidworks. 3d processing in Python under Linux. Manufacturing with laser cutter, good friends, good music, beer and lots of coffee.



Made the MIT Infinite Corridor in less than one parsec ! from ryan wistort on Vimeo.