Hackaday: The first Philadelphia Maker Faire was extremely impressive, and seemed poised to be one of the premier maker events on the East Coast. Unfortunately, it had the misfortune of happening just a few months before COVID-19 made such events impossible. Robbed of all its momentum, the event tried out different venues after the shadow of the pandemic was gone, but struggled to meet the high bar set by that inaugural outing.
This event sounds really interesting! The project detailed in this article that I found the most cool was the Cardboard Table Saw. With no blade, it is incredibly safe and yet the video shows that it works remarkably well. As someone who spent hours and hours as a kid cutting and making things out of cardboard (and in totally honestly still do so as an adult), this tool is a game changer. It allows for accuracy and speed in a way that an exacto knife or box cutter simply doesn’t. And while I don’t specifically know the longevity of this tool, it seems like it will last longer than a traditional blade cutter. Blades get dull very quickly when cutting cardboard, since this utilizes a spinning motion to cut, it won’t wear down in the same kind of way. I also really liked this author’s pun on the term CAD! I know many of my projects have benefitted from Cardboard Aided Design.
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