The creation of the box comes far before we even reach the Laser Cutters of the OEDK, it begins with a mere slab of wood. For this slab of wood, it must be measured, to which I found it to be 0.218 inches. With this knowledge in hand, I set out to find the kerf of the laser.

With calipers, the gap between these slats of laser cut wood seemed to be 0.15 inches, and after dividing by 10, equaled 0.015 inches giving me the precise kerf of the laser. After this I went to makerbox.com, where after inputting the aforementioned values I would get an Adobe illustrator box design. Taking this illustrator box design, I added my name and college crest to it, and my preparations were complete.

With this I was ready to cut out my box, and I used the settings, 10 speed, 100 power for cutting out the box and 600 resolution, 60 speed, 40 power, for engraving the iconography.

I ended up cutting out two boxes because I thought the first one didn’t fit together.

As it turns out, it’s a really tight fit (one might call it, press fit) so you have to put a lot of force in order to get the sides to fit together.

The space after being cleaned up.

As for the cost of this object, I believe it would cost around $10. The plywood sheet would cost around $3 if you bought it on it’s own, however a laser cutter is highly inaccessible to 90% of people so that’s where the specialized cost would come from.