For Christmas I decided I would be laser cutting my parents gifts this year. I really liked the idea of a calender desk toy, and thought there was something really nice about the idea of building with time, so this construction toy calender, cut from 1/8th inch thick birch plywood and left natural, came about.

The design is based off of 4volt’s Hex Connector Toy and inspired by the bonsai calender (which clearly I love conceptually… but I think isn’t so great aesthetically).

What I really like is that at the end of 2010, there’s no need to throw out this calender. Instead, a new calender for 2011 (and so forth) can be cut, and used with the previous year’s to build bigger and better creations.

I’ve posted the files for it, as well as assembly instructions, over on Thingiverse, so if you feel so inclined to make your own, be my guest.