Token Design
For the construction of the tangibles we took advantage of the recent availability of conductive graphene filaments on 3D printers, which were used to create the contact points, attached to a common base and enclosed in a plastic PLA shield.
Within the TokenDesign folder you will find all resources to autonomously fabricate your personal tokens. The three sub-folders are organized as follows:
- TokenLayouts: AutoCad source files (.dwg) with all token layouts both for contact points and for the shield.
- 3X3_64_4_WALL: 3d model (.stl) and 3D print (.gcode) files for every token shield class.
- 3X3_65_4_BASE: 3d model (.stl) and 3D print (.gcode) files for every token contact point class.
3D models of all token shields and contact points are available in .stl files which is the mostly supported by all the 3D slicing softwares. Token partes are modelled in the AutoCad environemnt, drawing (.dwg) files are available, but if you wish to model your own please refer to the measurements defined in the layout files.
3D printing files (.gcode) of all token shields and contact points are available and ready to by uploaded to any 3D printer. If you wish to control printing parameters load the .gcode files in any slicing software such as Cura or Slic3r.
Tokens shields can be printed with any desired material either PLA or ABS, be aware that provided .gcode files are set to work with PLA filaments (temperature and other parameter are material specific). Moreover, token's contact point must be printed with any available conductive material. We used a graphene based [filament] (http://www.blackmagic3d.com/Conductive-p/grphn-pla.htm) manufactured by [Black Magic 3D] (http://www.blackmagic3d.com/). Also in this case bare in mind .gcode files are optimized to work with the aforementioned material.