For adults: box knife with a jig consisting of a fence and stop block
For children: auto-retract safety knife and add a second fence to keep the blade enclosed
A child learns nothing but dependance on stupid gadgets from the device in the OP.
And, it sucks relative a box knife, straight edge, and stop block. The only decent use case I’ve seen presented is for the small minority of developmentally disabled individuals that require extreme safety measures.
Such limitations aren’t received well by intelligent and ethical others. Best of luck.
That’s great. Use this thing. It’s what I’d give my developmentally disabled 55 year old uncle as well.
But, it’s definitely not what I’d teach my child or the vast majority of other children. A typical child only needs a couple of safety accommodations relative an adult: an auto-reteact safety knife and a double fence.
No rational response, huh?
Cutting carboard with scissors? It can be done, but it’s a chore amd the results are poor. I wouldn’t wish it on school children.
Your tools probably suck.
Any knife and straight edge is faster and easier. Any warehouse worker knows this. Any compost bin is better than cat scratchers. Any environmentalist knows this.
For scissors I recommend Fiskars titanium nitride. Just yesterday they gave me a nice curve in 1/16th aluminum. Cardboard cuts like a hot knife through butter. And, I bet they cost less than the materials used in the tool in the OP.
Box knife reco: any metal housing without an auto-retract safety feature but with a retractable blade
Knife reco: Morakniv Companion: cheap, sharp, extremely versatile.
Aviation snips reco: Klein J1102S will take 12" cheater bars and be fine
Fence: use a metal level instead of a metal ruler to prevent mistakes
Learn how to make a jig for speed and accuracy in any repetive cutting task.
People have been interested in useless gadgets since capitalism has mandated perpetual increase in consumption. It’s now so bad that the solution to all problems is needless consumption.
But, neolibs gonna’ neolib until they can’t afford their filament.
Not a boomer and it’s not just kids. My suburban neighbors are calling plumbers to fix toilets and electrician to fix light switches. They just mindlessly consume resources, as they’ve been instructed. They’re choosing fiscal slavery, like lemmings off a cliff.
My objection is that it’s needless consumption that sucks relative alternatives such as learning to use a box knife and starting a compost bin.
Your reasoning is so obscure very few will follow. CONSUME!
I mean that’s kinda the whole deal with 3d printing, it’s useful for really niche applications where you can just add a small amount of convenience to your life.
Is it? All I ever request to be printed is the proprietary part that prematurely broke as it was designed to do.
Someone else commented about this being good for school kids
Instead of teaching them to use scissors? We’re raising a generation that can’t think or do for themselves. They’re reliant upon consumption.
as a cat owner with a constant pile of recycling I can see this being actually useful
As an adult you think it’s more useful than a box knife? It’s not even going to be faster than a box knife with straight edge. And, why do you need a product to pet your cat?
You’ve designed a niche solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
Use a box knife. Or, for a more versatile tool, get a Morakniv Companion.
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Ploutocide.
No. American and allied troops fought in the Vietnam conflict. Our strategy evolved in the Cold War and proxy wars. A proxy war is fought only with fiscal, humanitarian, and arms support.
For example, we destroyed Afghanistan in the 80’s by supporting the mujahideen fighting against the Soviet Union: a proxy war. Unable to communicate what’s been done, they resorted to extreme violence in September, 2001. So, we fucked 'em all the war back to 17th century religious persecution.
I’m a born American. I love so much about this country at the roots of the land and people I meet in it. But, it’s totally fucking rotten at the top and we refuse to admit it. If we did then we’d have to do something about it. Then, it quickly becomes obvious that voting isn’t going to do jack shit. That’s scary as fuck.
Don’t forget Vietnam and Korea.
Vietnam and Korea were hot wars. My examples are proxy wars where the locals retiliated with “terrorism”.
The US is constantly enmeshed in wars, but when was the last time Americans actually won one? 1945?
We’re achieving our goals in Ukraine right now, as we did in all my examples above. The last time we lost was Vietnam, unless we’re also counting failed coup attempts (2020).
This time it’s different.
I understand where you’re coming from. I think you’re naive.
If we wanted the war to be won then we’d have already settled it with superior airpower and munitions. Instead, we offer limited assistance and imposed Vietnam-style geographic rules.
That was the moron wing of US foreign policy.
So, the reason the program has been so successful for decades is because it’s being run by morons?
That’s how you’re backing your assertion of “vatnik propaganda”?
Wow. Good luck with that nonsense.
Afghanistan. Iraq. Iran. Libya. Syria.
But, suuuure. This time it’s different.
SMRT.