bendo bento
[micromachinery]
manu's intro lecture to the micromachines was trés interesting, not to mention helpful. hooray for small things!
i wanted to take something already small and uber-smallify it. hence, i chose to design a miniscule version of a bento box. bento is a japanese meal organized neatly into different compartments, beautifully arranged with marvelously mini morsels. [interesting tidbit from wikipedia: Shōkadō bentō (松花堂弁当) is a traditional black-lacquered Japanese bento box, a type of lunchbox. It inspired IBM's ThinkPad design.] a bento box display is something very simple and compartmentalized, but also complex in aesthetics, layout, and components.
here are my 2D files, designed in coreldraw:
corel10 file
dxf file
update: inspired to create little containers for even littler things. can put tiny glass beads (~40 microns) within the boxes to make gorgeous microscopic pieces. i'm thinking joseph cornell meets richard feynmann.
six bento box configurations: zip file
interested in freestanding structures, multi-layer techniques, and is there any possibility for mini pressfit parts?
manu's intro lecture to the micromachines was trés interesting, not to mention helpful. hooray for small things!
i wanted to take something already small and uber-smallify it. hence, i chose to design a miniscule version of a bento box. bento is a japanese meal organized neatly into different compartments, beautifully arranged with marvelously mini morsels. [interesting tidbit from wikipedia: Shōkadō bentō (松花堂弁当) is a traditional black-lacquered Japanese bento box, a type of lunchbox. It inspired IBM's ThinkPad design.] a bento box display is something very simple and compartmentalized, but also complex in aesthetics, layout, and components.
here are my 2D files, designed in coreldraw:
corel10 file
dxf file
update: inspired to create little containers for even littler things. can put tiny glass beads (~40 microns) within the boxes to make gorgeous microscopic pieces. i'm thinking joseph cornell meets richard feynmann.
six bento box configurations: zip file
interested in freestanding structures, multi-layer techniques, and is there any possibility for mini pressfit parts?
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