Free Paper Toy Construction Set
(A strut and girder type paper construction set for free)
I have started something new. I don't know how far I will get before other interests call me away so I thought I might present what I have as a work in progress.
I started out with a simple idea. Somewhere, I thought to myself, there is a kid (or kid at heart) sitting in a room with a computer with a printer and an Internet connection. Bored out of his or her mind. Perhaps this child is trapped in an office building after school while their parent is catching up on something boring. This poor lonely child looking desperately around for something to do that's fun as well as quiet. But most of the good websites are blocked by the company fire wall or a net nanny. A long search reveals only a pair of scissors and a bottle of Elmer's glue. What could this poor child do. After searching the web for anything to do to pass the time, the child finally enters a search engine and does a search for Free Paper Toys. One of the first links they see is for www.ss42.com Free Paper Toys. There they find cars and trucks and airplanes of all kinds. Towns and villages, Animals and flowers, even paper dolls. But after trying many of these toys, as cool as they are, the child discovers that most of these toys recommend printing on good card stock paper. But the only paper available is that cheap flimsy kind of paper you find in every office printer. The kind made for printing those boring reports that seem to be the point of office buildings. And that is where This idea comes in.
A complete set of construction pieces designed to rely on that cheap crummy paper. I have worked out some of the details for this construction set but it seems to be taking forever to write the instructions for the finished models. I have created standard sizes of lumber that can be used to construct a wide variety of structures using mostly 90 and 45 degree angles. I am working now on wheels, cams, and the elusive axle. Gears seem possible but they may take some time too. So for now I am granting you access to the same tools that I am using to create the toys themselves. I am sure that many of our visitors child, and parent will enjoy the potential my construction set will provide. Feel free to contact me with any designs you have created. My goal for now is to create good Free Paper Toys for children of all ages.
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