With these 3-D printed parts, kids can turn veggies into vehicles. Samuel Bernier
With these 3-D printed parts, kids can turn veggies into vehicles.
Carrotmobile! Samuel Bernier
Carrotmobile!
French designer Samuel Bernier came up with the idea. Samuel Bernier
French designer Samuel Bernier came up with the idea.
"There are no rules to this game, so it's just plain creativity," he says. Samuel Bernier
"There are no rules to this game, so it's just plain creativity," he says.
Countdown to a rocket ride. Leaving the plate in 5...4...
Countdown to a rocket ride. Leaving the plate in 5...4...
If your kid is going to play with her vegetables, you might as well let her really get down to business.
Open Toys, a project by French designer Samuel Bernier of le FabShop, is a series of 3-D printable pieces that turn veggies into submarines, race cars, airplanes, and more. The set includes wheels, wings, propellers and cockpits, all of which can be mixed and matched on any piece of produce your kid is not eating, no way, no how.
Bernier came up with the idea in 2013, during a summer workshop at Domaine de Boisbuchet, a 15th-century French estate that hosts educational programming related to design and architecture. “I was trying to find a way to combine natural and artificial in a beautiful way,” he says. “Low tech and high tech.”
Kids playing with the parts at a recent pop-up gallery in Paris. Samuel Bernier
The designer revisited the idea last month when Autodesk was holding a pop-up gallery in Paris. He printed a bunch of pieces and left them on a table with an assortment of vegetables. Kids ate it up, so to speak. “There are no rules to this game, so it was just plain creativity,” he says.
Bernier’s done a number of clever projects in this vein. A few years back, he fabricated a series of striking shades for his busted Ikea lamp. It’s a thoughtful use of the technology: In a world that’s already full of stuff, Bernier uses 3-D printing to give some of that stuff new life. Just make sure your kid realizes that his cucumbermobile might go missing next time you want to make a summer salad.
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