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So this weekend the 12-year-old made a few things. (All I had to tell him was “It takes SVGs, or Jpegs if you want to engrave a picture.”) I was particularly taken by this piece that he made for some of his chess-playing friends, because I hadn’t imagined that you could make this kind of detail self-supporting. Certainly not structural, but for decorations…
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