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A hand holding up the 3D-printed miniature bust

Photo by Sparsh Paliwal on Unsplash. The mini ended up with more impressions than I have.

Hardware · 3D printing · Fabrication

A tiny me and a wooden business card

3D scanned and printed a miniature of myself, and laser etched a wooden NFC business card

2025

Two fabrication experiments, made at the University of Maryland makerspace during a fabrication course.

  • A tiny me. I scanned my face with Heges, a LiDAR app on iPhone, cleaned up the mesh in Nomad Sculpt on iPad, and printed a bust and a full-body figure on an Ender 3. Just a phone, a tablet and a $200 printer.
  • A wooden business card. Walnut veneer, laser-etched with my coordinates, a QR code, my handle and my URL, over an NFC chip: tap it with a phone and my portfolio opens.
3D printed bust with the laser etched card in the background
A bust version alongside the full figure
Laser etched wooden NFC business card with QR code and coordinates
Walnut veneer card with laser-etched coordinates, QR code, and an embedded NFC chip