Chess Board (Makruk Thai-Style)

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Our 3D printed Makruk Thai chess pieces demanded a board, so we created this enormous board with squares measuring 50x50mm. Thai chess boards are one-color, but you could just as easily print contrasting/alternating squares for your board. Our Makruk Thai chess pieces can be found here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3272005 #Printing & Post-Printing This design requires extensive friction welding. To learn more about friction welding, check out our tutorial (video) here: https://appliedtechnologylab.blogspot.com/2018/06/3d-printing-tutorial-friction-welding.html For added weight, we assemble the bottom and top halves, fill both with a concrete (cement/sand mix), then weld the two halves together. There's plenty of room inside the board to add LEDs or anything else as well, but will require you to modify the 3D file (SketchUp) or do some drilling. Check out the file names of the parts to print. If there's an "x" and a number, that's how many times you have to print that file out. If there's no number, just print that file once. We're still printing it out. When we're done, we'll update with photos and a little guide to putting it together.