With Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse and Snowzilla wreaking havoc on Chicago, I said SnOMG! and thought this may be a fitting upload. I've always wanted snowshoes for such occasions. Luckily, work has been cancelled today, so I wont have to walk in this blizzard, but I am looking for a fun project to do while i'm home.

These are low polygon snowshoes, now you can't print them out with a 3D printer, but you can print them out on a 2D printer with a papercraft program called Pepakura Designer. It allows you to make 3D objects out of paper.

Now, you're saying what good are paper snowshoes? Well, not good at all... until you fiberglass them and fill them with your choice of filler, like casting resin. So, the next big snow storm I'll be ready!

I left some areas of the shoe open for cloth covering and as you can see it has some good crampon spikes for grip.

I also contemplated making sheet metal snowshoes and even laser cut wood snowshoes, maybe someone else can give that a try.

From the picture you can see the garage is pretty well snowed in.

I also added the object file & STL if you want to unfold it yourself or do something else with it.

This is a World of Warcraft horde weapon I ve found on this great paper-craft site a while ago.
wowpapercraft.blogspot.com/2007/10/ripsaw.html (french)

I've build it from paper in large scale and did an intervetion in public space with it in 2008 - full details here datenform.de/1heng.html

Would love to see this printed! :-)

Pleas find also the pepakura file and pdf paper builing instructions below.

This box is perfect for carrying stuff with it’s built in handle, which is surprisingly strong. It also makes a good gift box.

This copy of the container is cut from a 8x8in of paper area, and when folded is 2x2x4, big enough for small trinkets. The design can easily be scaled up to hold bigger items, all you would have to do is printing out the design larger. There is also a square version included with the files.

If you are interested in the original source files, I designed this one in flash, which is what I can design in the fastest.

You can find more of my projects over at 4volt.com.

A papercraft spin toy, as described here:
www1.ttcn.ne.jp/a-nishi/popup_spinner/z_popup_spinner.html

This business card is a tri-folded laser cut card meant to look like a old school cassette tape.

The advantage this card has over other is that there's a zipper seal (like on UPS envelopes) on the back of the card that lets you open it like a tri-fold brochure so you can fit a mini-portfolio or a bunch of text on your usually too small business card.

This design gives you about 3.5 x 4in of space that you can't see when the card is folded and sealed.

It's possible to print the card on standard thickness paper, or card stock, though printing and folding normal paper turns out to be the the most similar to a standard business card in thickness.

If you like this thing, i've got more stuff over at 4volt.com/