Zebra Paper Bird

In short: A paper (1.8mm thick cardboard) folding model of a bird with a zebra pattern. You can print this thing, use the OpenSCAD to change parameters (please refer to thing 16209 for more instructions) or you can also just use the zebra pattern in your own design! The long tale... Did you try to print this thing's predecessor and didn't work? Well, that also happened to me now that I have a stepper extruder(s) printer. Some time ago Bot1334 did a great job because with her downgraded MK4 DC extruder, she don't miss a chance to ooze and that ooze acts as a perfect support. To get the print I first modified the OpenSCAD to make a "big feet bird" and then and because I have a DualStrusion capable printer, I thought "hmmmm... it would be cool to add a pattern here: Checkered? (boring) What about something like making this bird looking like a cow? or a zebra?". After a quick search I downloaded a zebra pattern but I could not import the vector file into any of the opensource tools I have installed, no worries, with the help of the turorials that have been thingiversed I have find the way to make it possible. I used Inkscape to outline part of the pattern, imported into blender to make a usable STL, fixed the STL with netfabb and finally applied some boolean operations, difference and intersection, with OpenSCAD. Thanks to: Engineer vs designer & Makerbot for the Replicator, special thanks to Sasha and the people at Makerbot for all the help in the process of getting Brooklyn 8429 safe at home! rbckman for the great and one of the coolest, if not THE coolest, tutorial involving Inkscape and Blender, check out http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:22128 if not done yet! tbuser for the supra-excellent tutorial on how to clean up scans for 3D printing, you can find this one here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:22275 inferlogic for his zebra pattern, http://inferlogic.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0#/d1pu0bq