(i.e.: make it out of cardboard first)

Cardboard Prototyping

I’m planning to use the ShopBot and a sheet of 3/4-inch MDF to make a cocktail table (that sounds so much more glamorous and retro than “coffee table”, don’t you think?) for our living room. I’m designing the whole thing in PartWorks then I’ll feed the plan and the sheet of MDF into the ShopBot at TechShop Durham: ten minutes later I’ll have all the parts I need for a table accurately cut to thousandths of an inch. A couple of screws, a touch of sanding and a coat of paint and I’ll have a first class table for about $50.

We live in an Age of Magic in the most real sense possible.