3D printed chess set whose pieces form a "Chess Giant"

Cymon (AKA Joe) won the Tinkercad Chess Set Design contest with his design for Action #Chess, whose pieces can be assembled into a Chess Giant. He's documenting the 3D output of his darling on his MakerBot blog.

Action Chess By Cymon: It Works!

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Grahamers2002

You nostalgia, you lose!
Gordon McMillan

Curious. When I passed the link for this page to friends, I (as usual) stripped off everything from the ? on in the URL bar. So it ends as “.html”, as one would expect. But that link doesn’t work. Which (to put on my “standards purist” hat), is a violation of HTTP.

Hmmm. No, it appears to be something Google Reader did. Nevermind!
Brander Roullett

+1 for being awesome.
Andrew Singleton

And so the White and Black Kings have decided to end their struggle once and for all in the only way it ever could.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Polygamous robotic fornication. I like to use that for conflict resolution myself.
Senor Schaffer

One strategy would be to intentionally lose pieces and form ChessBot on the sidelines.

I would be so very good at that.
- Andrew Singleton
  
  The problem is you have to lose ALL of your pieces except your king. Which is hard to do.
  - Mantissa128
    
    Naw, you build your ‘bot from your opponent’s pieces. An added incentive not to give up any piece.
    - Andrew Singleton
      
      I’d always played it like a last ditch desperation move that’s high risk but also high payoff. After all how often do you have JUST a king left?
Chris Ingram

Shut up and take my money..
- Mantissa128
  
  You don’t need money, just a 3D printer. Such is the way of the future!
  - EvilSpirit
    
    Ah, but 3D printers run on money.
  - EvilSpirit
    
    Ah, but 3D printers run on money.
habbi1974

render much…?
http://ravenlunatick.wordpress.com/ ravenlunatick

I love this.
beepbeep

Wondrous! Chess meets Clive Barker’s ‘In the Hills, the Cities’
Ubercool.
Aveion Jones

you have taken chess to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL