Jarkman's Flexure Kit

I made this for a Makevember, when I tried to make one example flexure from 'Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms' every day, out of card and tape.

So, I needed the tools to make quite complex and intricate little cardboard constructions, and I needed to be able to carry it around with me for speedy lunchbreak makes.

Case

A plastic business-card case. Maybe from eBay ?

Contents

• Washi tape - thin, strong, flexible, restickable paper tape
• Blank white business cards. I use a lot of these, usually for idea-generating processes, but also as construction material. They come from eBay in boxes of 1000
• Fisher 150mm satin chrome rule, cut down
• Lasercut tiny setsquares - these worked OK but I'd like to do better
• Extending ballpoint
• Folding scalpel
• Fiskars folding scissors
• Zebra TS3 mechanical pencil
• Spare #11 scalpel blade