Furious dice bag

A friend of mine started a new Youtube channel(-> here) about his pen-and-paper RPG endeavours. In fact, he already has such a channel (-> here), but the new one if in english for a broader reach.

Anyway, I like when people do something other than sit in front of Facebook, so I made him a gift:

A leather dice bag, made with the laser cutter in the MunichMakerLab!
The first leather dice bag I made... and it kinda sucks! :-D

I wanted to engrave his new logo, sadly I didn't watch the paths and didn't realise that the thick black areas were lots of paths side by side. So the laser penetrated not just engraved. Well it still holds together but I don't know how long
Second, the rope doesn't glide. I sew a narrow strip of leather together and wanted to turn it out... didn't work, to narrow. I had no alternative, so I put it in like that.

With all that I forgot to make nice endings for the rope, so I set four stitches by hand to just fold it over.

Meh, could be worse. Next one will be better!

Thats not pink!

A friend gave me an old pink magenta pedal car for my son, as thank you for helping them move. 

It's made out of sheet metal any already survived his two son more or less unscratched.

The only (major) thing that's not made out of metal is the seat (you can see the original here), so I decided to change build a leather seat.

I used fantastic plastic as a base material, found some foam at the makerspace and used some furniture leather I had sitting around as cover. I made it a twin seat because, you never know If you need some additional room. =)  

Leather Macbook sleeve

Some more ventures into laser cutting leather. I needed a step up from the laser cut mobile phone sleeve, so I went to notebooks.

I used furniture grad leather I bought from a local BO Concept store. I used white on front and back, brown on the sides.

First try to use a new tool for the stitching as well. I used something like this. I need some additional practice though...

First experiment in lasercutting leather

Another MuMaLab member demonstrated to me how easy it is to laser cut leather. I love leather as a material and wanted to try it myself.

This is my first try, a protective mobile sleeve made out of a thin, soft leather in blue-green. I designed the pattern in OpenSCAD and made it able to adapt to different phone sizes.

I ordered the material of eBay and made the cut on the Lasercutter in the MuMaLab.

The trick is to cut the holes with the cutter as well. That way, you don't need a sewing machine (or the skill to use it) just a needle and some time. I took about 30 minutes to sew the parts together.

You can find the file on Thingiverse. Or if you want to replicate my effort, go to Instructables.