jmowen / miss-flyer

Turning a sheet of paper into a paper plane in a single swipe!

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Miss Flyer the best use of a misprint! It can turn an ordenairy paper into an extra ordaniary paper plane with only one swipe! 😮

Entirely made from a single sheet of lasercutted plywood.

One gif says more than 1000 words:

Miss Flyer in use:

Overview photo:

Lasercut overview:

Initial sketch:

How i made all of this? I kept a A3 logbook:

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Video: (click on image)

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Bill Of Material:

Quantity	Description	Dimentions
1	Sheet of plywood	5mm 830x650mm
1	Fishing rod or other thin wire	40cm
1	Binder clip	20mm(smaller=better)
1	Rubber	20x10mm

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Instructions:

1. Assemble subassembly 1:

2. Assemble subassembly 2:

3. Glue slider together:

4. Insert slider and add endstops:

5. Assemble rest:

6. Cutout wood between holes so wire can sit flush and slider can still slide:

7. Glue or bolt clip down and add a piece of rubber (in my case bike tire) to the clip for better grip:

8. Like this:

NOW HAVE FUN!!

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Changelog:

• Version 1: Genesis
• Version 2: Improved version!

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Future development:

• Write building Instructions
• Better performance
• No need for glue (?)
• Engraving
• More paper plane designs
• Have a paper plane war at the office!

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It's Open Source, go ahead build it!

Made for PO2 Project at the Technical university of Delft.

The paper plane folder isn't perfect, sometimes the paper creases. let me know if you have improvements 😃

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