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Business Gun-Card - Rubber Band Gun

by ruudcreates

Here it is, the business shooter card for all backyard
inventors. But what is wrong with a normal business
card you ask?
What if you're about to have a job interview and the
persons next to you have one of clide's business
cards? Using their heavy artillery, both the cardapult
and trebucard, they try to shoot you right out of the
eld. But wait, you have a big advantage over your
opponents, you're agile. With your two shot gun-card
you move through the eld. You got them both
before they even know where you are. The battle was
yours, now it's time to win the war. Time to reload and
enter the job interview.
Ale rt : don't use this war-equipment the wrong way
when the nal battle is at hand, the war isn't won that
way.

Step 1: Materials:

De s ig n:

Pen and paper

Excel
CAD software

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Ca rd:

3D printer
Three rubber bands - 1 for the mechanism, 2 to shoot
Superglue
Sand paper / small le

Step 2: Design

It all started out as an idea when I was at a mini maker
faire a couple of years ago. There was a guy showing
all his homemade rubber band guns. I saw the
business cards of Clide just before that when
searching for business cards here on Instructables. So
I started talking to the guy and an idea was borne in
my head.
I designed the rst three versions using Microsoft
Excel (see image). Turned all cells in squares and
started 'drawing' my design. The design was a three
layered double shot revolver the size of a credit card.
A part of the card, which should contain my info, was
removable. I build the rst prototype, but the
mechanism didn't work and the trigger was way too
imsy. Proto 2 solved the trigger, but only after that
iteration I realized the mechanism didn't work. So
then came the third iteration, but before I made this
one, I changed the idea a bit.
In the end the business card was a combination of the
last Excel-design and Jimmy Diresta's Key Card. The
gun is constructed of three printed layers glued
together. It took me another 3 3D design iterations to
get to the nal version of the card. The two outer
layers have a debossed area. By transferring that
debossing using pencil, one can get your contact info.

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Step 3: Print and Build Your Card

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Before you print your card, rst you need to add your
contact information to the design. You can use
whatever CAD-software you like. Add the info en
deboss it 0.2mm downwards. Only add information to
the outer layers, the middle layer won't be visible. A
version with the Instructables logo is uploaded as
well.
Once you have added your contact info, export the 3d
les to you favorite slicer software. The card is
designed to be printed in 0.2mm layers. A gap of
0.2mm is left open between the sliding parts. If your
printer is not accurate enough, consider printing the
parts 'out of place'. You can afterwards tweak the t
with a le or sandpaper.
After printing it is time to glue the parts together. The
rst glue image shows which parts need to be glued
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rst. After gluing you can remove some of the excess
glue. I also attened the prints with a le to remove
any sticking out lament (due to for example
retraction). Now glue on the other side. If you did it
correct, you still have 4 small pieces left. Make sure
the gun is in it's 'loaded' position, you are then able to
glue the 4 pieces to the middle layer.
The gun should now be able to work. But to make the
business card part work optimal I would advise to
sand the outer layers a bit smooth.
Only one task ahead before we can go and shoot our
card, to add a rubber band in the 'center' of the card
as can be seen in the image. This rubber band brings
the card in shooting position.You should now have a
working gun-card.
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Step 4: Play

Alright, time to get to the fun part. Using your gun-
card.
Add two rubber bands as can be seen in the image.
Ready?? .. .. .. Fire!! Great shot, you hit the trash can.
Fire!! Another great hit. Your future employer seems
enthusiastic. Quickly grad a piece of paper and pencil.
Put the paper on top of the gun-card and start
'scratching' with the pencil. The debossed information
should now transfer to the paper. Provide the
employer with the paper and thank him for the
interview. The battle again seems to be in your favor,
but only time will tell whether the war is won.

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This is totaly hilarious! I must make this! Thank you so much for sharing your idea!

Great play on the classic rubber band gun!

Thanks. Glad you like it.

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