The cardboard thickness measured to be 0.157 inches, so I tried this first.

With this in mind, I went to try and cut various simple curved and circular pieces on the laser cutter to get a sense of the slot width I should use. The sketch on the left illustrates the general idea. I decided to use the week to create one such lamp so that you could remove/add pieces so it would take on different aesthetics. The trick would be to mathematically create these shapes such that they could use the same set of circular forms. Theoretically, this seemed possible since you could vary the order in which you place the horizontal cross sections (circular pieces) to create different curves. I liked the idea of creating modular lamp shades where you could have a kit of ~50-100 pieces that could be connected to make all sorts of different shaped lamps. I made 20-30 different curves and played around with different aesthetics - revolving, extruding etc. With the goal of modular design in mind, I started playing around with curved objects in Fusion 360.

This week’s assignment got me thinking about how you could create design objects for a room that were modular and unique - could I build “kits” that people could put together in different ways to have a unique piece in their home while still originating from the same set of pieces? Assignment: cut something on the vinyl cutter and make a parametric press-fit construction kit on the laser cutter

Fusion 360 hexagon