Chess pieces

Using acrylic modules, you can create chess pieces out of recycled plastic. You can make 3d standing pieces as well as the board all with reusing plastic.

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3 steps

1 Design

You should get pictures of chess pieces online and then add them to Illustrator. In Illustrator, you would make it sho only the outline is visible so the laser cutter can cut the piece's shape, leaving room for the injection molding. You would need the edit the bottom to add spaces. This is so you can create a base for the chess pieces and make them stand easily. You would do this for every shape. I added two or more chess pieces of chess pieces to every module to save acrylic.

2 Creation

After all your designs are done, you need to export, save them as an AI file, and export them onto glow forge for the laser cutter. You need to add acrylic to the laser cutter and then remove all the mold. Before moving the modules, make sure that the laser cutter fully passes through all of the pieces to save acrylic. If it did not pass through, make an outline to go through them again. After cutting the pieces, you add them to the injection molding machine.

3 Complete product

When you add the modules to the plastic machine, you must apply force and create the module. You would need to do this with every piece. After this, you would add the base to make the chess pieces functional. You would need to make two complete sets, one white and one black. After this, you will have your final product.

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