Korean Fighting Kite

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<p>These are simple connectors for building your own Korean fighting kite.</p> <p>My son needed to build one for his project on Asia so I designed and printed out corner connectors, t-connectors, and a central connector with my Cupcake.</p> <p>I went with this design for our kite:</p> <p><a href="http://www.kiteplans.org/planos/coreen/coreen.html">http://www.kiteplans.org/planos/coreen/coreen.html</a></p> <p>You will need to use Google Translate to translate the page from French to English. One thing that I did was up-scale the dimensions of the kit a bit so that they're slightly larger than the metric-to-english conversion on the above design.</p> <p>There are similar designs on <a href="http://www.kiteplans.org/pln_1564/">http://www.kiteplans.org/pln_1564/</a> as well.</p> <h3>Instructions</h3> <p>Print out the kite-connectors-plate.stl (prints a spare corner and t-connector for you). It'll just fit on a Makerbot build platform. If you want to print each part separately (or need a spare) you'll need to print 1 kite-center-connector.stl, 4 kit-corner.stl, and 4 kite-t-connector.stl.</p> <p>You will also need enough 1/8" dowel rod for the following:</p> <p>3 - 13" lengths (horizontal supports)</p> <p>3 - 18" lengths (vertical supports)</p> <p>2 - 22" lengths (diagonal supports)</p> <p>I just used an exacto knife to cut the dowel rod to length. Also the holes were a bit tight (which I liked for the corner pieces but not so much for the T-connectors). I drilled out the corner holes and the short vertical in the t-connector with a 1/8" bit to make the dowel rod slip in easier. I then used a 9/64" bit to ream out the horizontal holes in the t-connector and in the center connector holes so that it went all the way through so that the dowel rod would slide through easily.</p> <p>Next, assemble it per the attached photo. Hot glue the corners and leave the center connector and the horizontal through-hole in the t-connectors unglued so that the kite can flex a bit.</p> <p>We then cut a piece of thin white fabric ~2" wider and taller than the kite frame, decorated it, and then hot glued it around the perimeter of the frame. We then attached the kite string per the attached image.</p> <p>I'll upload an image of the finished kite once we've completed it.</p> Category: Sport & Outdoors