So I'm the den leader for my son's Cub Scouts Bear den. This month's adventure has been all about marbles - marble words, games, a race, and make a marble maze. But the maze thing ... you need box tops with sides of some sort and stuff to glue barriers down to make a maze. I don't have 7 box tops like that. So I turned to ... my 3D printer!
Using Tinkercad, I designed this kit that has a base and a bunch of dividers. The base has 5mm holes, the dividers have 4.9mm pegs. Stick the dividers in in various layouts to make a maze!
It works pretty great, and I'm excited to give each kid their own kit they can take home after the meeting.
Lessons Learned
- I printed the barriers vertically to fit 90 of them in a print. That was a mistake as 10 of the 90 got all sorts of messed up. Made a new version that lays them down to hopefully fix that issue.
- I probably could have made the flat base under the holes thinner. It's 1mm and probably could have gone .5mm really.
- The pegs on the barriers are 4.9mm, 0.1mm smaller than the holes. IT's a snug fit and I hope the kids are able to get them snapped in. If I were to do it again, I'd print some test sizes (4.9, 4.875, 4.85, 4.825...) to find the best fit.
- Start before the day before I need them. Each base is ~3hr print, and a sheet of 90 vertical barriers was 4hrs. Came in under the wire.
Where Can You Get This Awesome Thing?!
I published it on Printables.
