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Electronic cutters?

I don't see any mention of electronic cutters or templates for electronic cutters on paper toy sites.

I'm thinking of the Cricut, Silhouette SD, Wishblade, eCraft, and several others. I would think the digital cutters would give excellent cutting and simplify building toys.

Personally, I have a Cricut (it's my wife's but I use it) and I've been turning templates into files that can be cut by the machine. The results aren't super accurate because the Cricut has no way to detect where it is on the paper. The Silhouette and Wishblade have sensors to read calibration lines on paper and cut accurately.

Here's the NPT mascot I made with the Cricut: nicepapertoy.jpg

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Permalink Reply by Titus Woods on February 9, 2011 at 3:35pm

I always thought it would be cool to have a cutting machine like that. But I can't justify buying one. When you get yours can I borrow it? ;)

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Permalink Reply by Mike P on February 10, 2011 at 2:37am

Wait...you can do what with a Cricut!?

Crikey!

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Permalink Reply by Jasen on February 10, 2011 at 6:54am

Here's a few other things I've done with the Cricut:

Boxzet

Harlancore's boxpunx.

You can see the misalignment/misregistration.

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Permalink Reply by karen trinidad on February 11, 2011 at 8:02am

there's a few people on this site that have those. I think matt hawkins has one and I can't remember who else. says they're amazing once you calibrate it right.