Gena Estep (History) and I have been working on a prototype for a classroom activity that has students organizing and matching some important historical events and their outcomes. She showed me a paper prototype, and I cooked up a quick design in SketchUp for some interlocking game pieces:
A quick print and some post-processing with a Sharpie later…
The third tile didn’t quite work out, but for a first run it got the concept across. Next up: figuring out a reasonably quick production process for generating STLs for all the pieces needed. I’m looking into using OpenSCAD to create customizable objects for the Thingiverse customizer.