Gingerbread Graham Cracker House Sleigh & Reindeer
When my coworkers and I at Nolop, the Tufts makerspace, decided that we’d be having a gingerbread-house-building competition, I knew I had to go big or go home.
I started off by asking my boss if I could try cutting graham crackers with our CO₂ laser. He responded:
“Under one condition—let me eat one before you ruin the whole box of ‘em”
I scrolled through some pictures of sleighs until I found one I liked, and then I CAD’d a graham cracker facsimile of it in Fusion360.
And for the reindeer…
As a surface modeling novice, I wasn’t enthused with the idea of designing a reindeer from scratch. Instead, with some help from my friend Jake, I found a model I liked on Thingiverse and we ran it through Slicer for Fusion360. It was around this point that I tasted a test-cut graham cracker (not something I’d recommend). It was so repulsive that I gave up on the edibility of the project, opting to secure the reindeer slices with hot glue and handmake hot glue antlers.
Final Product
Despite its questionable edibility, I’m very proud of how it came out, especially considering the meager few hours it took to design and build. It wasn’t gingerbread, it wasn’t a house, but it scratched the itch and looked better than any gingerbread house I would’ve built.