Ninja Chess

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This project is first a graphics design project with a hardware element.

I have been tempted to make a 3D pirates v ninjas chess set for a long time and one day I might get round to doing this. As a stepping stone to this I decided to create the 2D ninja charters as part of an Instructables build night and attach them to laser cut plastic stands.

The charters were designed from scratch in Inkscape with a significant amount of reuse across them. This was partly to keep a consistent look and feel, and partly to reduce the time required so I would actually get it finished. The design has around 28 layers.

A significant amount of humour has been injected to the designs at times and I now have something I hope will bring a little smile to people's faces when playing.

Components

2 × Self-adhesive label sheets Standard A4 sheets that will go thought a printer.

1 × A printer Laser or inkjet. Ideally colour but mono will do.

1 × An automated paper cutter (optional but seriously time saving) The cutter being self aligning is a plus.

1 × 3mm black acrylic Any other colour will do.

1 × 3mm white acrylic Any other colour will do.

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Step 1

Full and simple build instructions for the playing pieces are on the Instructables site at http://www.instructables.com/id/Ninja-Chess/ .
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Step 2

The board was created by cutting an 8x8 grid on vinyl cutter and transferring every other square to the top of a marble slate. The same tequnique can be used with other substances from wood to glass.

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kwapiszon wrote 02/16/2021 at 08:50

What laser cut plastic? for example NEJE 2 7W is ok or i must have stronger?

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Andriy Makukha wrote 08/21/2018 at 07:56

Very cute chess pieces! Are they distributed on a free licence? Can I reuse them in my project?

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