The Business Card that Assembles into a Dinosaur

I'm not sure exactly how this is a business card, but the designer calls it that. It is a 2 dimensional flat printout that can be taken apart and then assembled into a Velociraptor. What a unique idea. I know my son would love playing with these. I hope people take this idea and come up with additional designs.

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source: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:362357

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Originally Posted by urbanmyth

I'm not sure exactly how this is a business card, but the designer calls it that.

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You put your business card stuff where it says "logo or other stuff here" and it's in that box on the tail when it's assembled.

I'm slicing it right now... It will be interesting to see how well it goes together.

I like it!

And of course... I had to make some changes. Damn this thing takes a long time to slice!
I wanted the tail to look normal. But that extra weight for the big square section of the tail is needed to make it balance. So I changed the angle of the back bone, the tail and how the legs attach. And bigger is better:

Attachment 1661

Fire up Open_SCAD and run this script to get the above dinosaur:

scale([2,2,2]) edit();

module edit() {
difference() {
union() {
import("FinalCard.stl");
translate([15.5,-16.5,0]) cube([2,5,.87]); // So we can change the angle of backbone

translate([5,-20,0]) rotate([0,0,20]) cube([3,3,.87]); // So we can change the angle of hips off of legs
translate([13,-31,0]) rotate([0,0,25]) cube([3,3,.87]);

translate([21, 33,0]) rotate([0,0,15]) cube([5,3,.87]); // So we can change the angle of the tail

}

for( i=[90:15:300])
translate([6,57,-.1]) rotate([0,0,i+10]) cube([15,15,10]);
translate([-15,43,-.1]) rotate([0,0,-15]) cube([10,10,10]);

translate([16.5,-15.0,-.1]) rotate([0,0,35]) cube([1.05,6,10]); // backbone at 20 degrees more

translate([5,-19.5,-.1]) rotate([0,0,45]) cube([4.8,1.2,1.87]); // So we can change the angle of hips off of legs
translate([13,-31,-.1]) rotate([0,0,45]) cube([4.8,1.2,1.87]);

translate([21.5, 34,-.1]) rotate([0,0,35]) cube([4.8,1.2,1.87]); // So we can change the angle of the tail

}
translate([-15,43,0]) cube([39,.75,1]); // put back outside support line that got taken out
}

I might have to try again in ABS.... PLA just made it way too brittle, and not fit together right. I know I could have taken files and cleaned it up, but was just hoping for a nice quick learning experience for my step son.