Prompt: An Object that can Support your Weight

Tutorial: Paneling with Surface Morph

We had a couple of mishaps before we were able to mass-produce our marshmallow design. Our first prints were incredibly dense with a lot of infills, but we soon realized that this was overkill and that lower-infill plastic could still support a person. We chose to put nine pieces in a three-by-three formation to balance the distribution of weight that would be put onto the object. We tried to resemble marshmallows as much as we could, while also incorporating the tutorials that we were given. 

For some reason, we had trouble getting our voronoi design to engrave on the mdf boards using the epilog laser mini in the circuits room. After some trouble shooting we gave up and used the laser cutter in the wood shop, where our design was completed successfully without any weird stopping or starting. We felt that the voronoi pattern from grasshopper would resemble the pattern that graham crackers have, while also looking cool and a little futuristic. 

Now that our marshmallows were printed and our graham crackers were properly engraved, all that was left to do was to paint our metal brown and glue everything together!

After spray painting the metal and leaving the pieces to glue overnight, our object was finally fabricated to completion. It works as intended, holding up the weight of an entire person, and looks just like a s'more sandwich. We're all very happy with how it turned out.