[FoRK] Coolest use for Shrinky-Dinks

[Jeff Bone]

On Dec 5, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Corinna Schultz wrote:

> I wonder how they came up with that idea...
>
> They were sitting around, frustrated, eating Ramen or something;
> someone jokingly picks up a design diagram, says "if only we could
> shrink this"...

Not quite, but damn clever anyway --- researcher was a new faculty  
member, didn't have budget or access to fabbing facilities yet,  
needed to fab some stuff, came up with this as stop-gap.

Necessity is truly the mother of invention.

jb