Little 3D-Printed Boxes

[bnewman]

If objects 3D-printed from plastic filament aren't "made of ticky-tacky", I don't know what is, and yet the technology excels in its ability to print 100 little boxes, all the same, and then turn around and print 100 more, all different.  The song's specific focus on twisty puzzles was inspired by YouTuber OskarPuzzle.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds

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/ G - / C G / - C /[1. G D :/[2. D G /

 

Little boxes on the toolbench

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky

Little boxes on the toolbench

And they're none of them the same

 

There's a green one and a pink one

And a blue one and a yellow one

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky

And they're none of them the same

 

And the makers print the boxes

In the workshop at the makerspace

In a special kind of printer

With an articulated frame

 

And they're software developers

And mechanical engineers

And they print things out of ticky-tacky

And they're none of them the same

 

And the boxes on the toolbench

Have lots of interlocking bits

And you mix them up and you put them back

Every one's a kind of game

 

And the makers think of new ones

And they sketch them and they model them

And they post them on the internet

And they're none of them the same

 

Other makers on the internet

Download the open source designs

And they print them out of ticky-tacky

And they come out just the same

 

There's a green one and a pink one

And a blue one and a yellow one

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky

And they're none of them the same