Last night I finished cutting the wooden pieces and burning the edges. Since I seem to be lacking both a wood burning tool and soldering iron, and my backup plan of using the tip of a hot glue gun to burn the edges failed me, I was left with the last alternative: the stove in the kitchen. With much care to not clip my fingers on the hot burners, I got the effect I mostly wanted and finished gluing them together. I'll edit this post later to include the in progress shot of the burnt edges. In the mean time, I've used the assembled wood section to extrapolate the dimentions for the foam backing and cut that out as well. After that I took a top down photo of the pieces to use as a template to construct the digital portion of the work which I finished up the today and assembled the wood, pirnt, and backing. All that remains is to blacken the paper edges so it blends with the black foam backing. After that I'll evaluate the piece and possibly add more wooden bits to enahnce the design.

In a not quite as rapid as actually print the file time frame, my project has finally arrived. I'll post some images of the final appearance, but here are a couple of shots of the piece right out of the box. A quck note, contrary to my initial tests, the material proved to be surprisingly flexible and springy. In some cases I was able to twist it almost 180° without it snapping . I even had to resort to using cutters to snap the material after throwing it as hard as possible at the ground fialed to cause breakage in the print. The second area of difficulty was assembling the shattered pieces. It seems the material this time was somewhat porous and absorbed the superglue I applied preventing the pieces from sticking. Eventually I was able to get the glue to hold. Despite these setbacks and adjustments I think the project still came out alright with the remaining aspects of the material I was exploiting working as planned.