Write a message, roll it, float it! 🙂 

I created a “floating message box” as a Christmas gift for my girlfriend.

She loves waking up to these small attentions…

@Snapmaker made it possible to build this original Idea!

I am 38 years old and from Germany. When I was 15 years old, my father took me and my brother to Italy for vacation. Especially the north of the “Lago di Garda”. My family mostly meets there once a year to camp and ride a mountain bike and have fun together. To honor that, my brother and I wanted to create a special present for our father’s 64th birthday. So we made him a relief of the exact area where we always meet and ride mountain bikes together.

For that, I used my Snapmaker 2.0 A350 with carving and laser engraving. I started with generating the stl for that area using a tool called Terrain2STL. Then I used Fusion 360 to create the layers for carving.

And with the laser engraver, I wrote the word “LAGO” (that’s what my dad calls this vacation) at the bottom of the carving. I used multilayered wood to make a nice contrast and it’s like the contour lines of a map.

The “pillar” part has been carved with the 4-axis rotative module. It’s made of 3 ascending spirals wrapped around a central column. The base part is made of oak and carved with the 3-axis CNC. It includes some height gradients (like a very flat cone) and 3 spiral shapes that are designed to align, or “morph” into the 3 coils of the pillar above. There are some tricky cuts in all 3 parts to make gluing stronger by maximizing the contact surface. This gift is meant for my wife as a symbol of our deep love.

Finally finished my Christmas gift for the GF. It was a labor of love… and I used all 3 modules on my Snapmaker to do it!

Custom-made Rummikub set. The tiles are laser etched and the numbers are carved with CNC. The tiles racks are 3D printed and the box was laser cut and etched. 

I chose to make my little sister this gift. She loves surprises so I designed a “present” box with my Snapmaker 3D printer. The box is completely 3D printed with the exception of some small pieces of string and paint. Then with the turn of a lever, the box pops open to reveal the gift inside. I also designed a little candy cane bowl for holding holiday treats to put inside.

Christmas Bauble ☃️ I made several Christmas baubles as gifts.

My gift is an upcycled drum cymbal to a wall clock.

The dial is cnc milled and the holders are printed with black PLA material.

Write a message, roll it, float it! 🙂 

I created a “floating message box” as a Christmas gift for my girlfriend.

She loves waking up to these small attentions…

@Snapmaker made it possible to build this original Idea!

I am 38 years old and from Germany. When I was 15 years old, my father took me and my brother to Italy for vacation. Especially the north of the “Lago di Garda”. My family mostly meets there once a year to camp and ride a mountain bike and have fun together. To honor that, my brother and I wanted to create a special present for our father’s 64th birthday. So we made him a relief of the exact area where we always meet and ride mountain bikes together.

For that, I used my Snapmaker 2.0 A350 with carving and laser engraving. I started with generating the stl for that area using a tool called Terrain2STL. Then I used Fusion 360 to create the layers for carving.

And with the laser engraver, I wrote the word “LAGO” (that’s what my dad calls this vacation) at the bottom of the carving. I used multilayered wood to make a nice contrast and it’s like the contour lines of a map.

The “pillar” part has been carved with the 4-axis rotative module. It’s made of 3 ascending spirals wrapped around a central column. The base part is made of oak and carved with the 3-axis CNC. It includes some height gradients (like a very flat cone) and 3 spiral shapes that are designed to align, or “morph” into the 3 coils of the pillar above. There are some tricky cuts in all 3 parts to make gluing stronger by maximizing the contact surface. This gift is meant for my wife as a symbol of our deep love.

Finally finished my Christmas gift for the GF. It was a labor of love… and I used all 3 modules on my Snapmaker to do it!

Custom-made Rummikub set. The tiles are laser etched and the numbers are carved with CNC. The tiles racks are 3D printed and the box was laser cut and etched. 

I chose to make my little sister this gift. She loves surprises so I designed a “present” box with my Snapmaker 3D printer. The box is completely 3D printed with the exception of some small pieces of string and paint. Then with the turn of a lever, the box pops open to reveal the gift inside. I also designed a little candy cane bowl for holding holiday treats to put inside.

Christmas Bauble ☃️ I made several Christmas baubles as gifts.

My gift is an upcycled drum cymbal to a wall clock.

The dial is cnc milled and the holders are printed with black PLA material.