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Ok, I admit it, I've been drawing this out for far too long, but hey, it's been a slow week around here and I needed blog fodder.

The item in question is a RepRap made Swiss army knife-toothpick. I lost mine years ago, and mentioned it to my friend when he was getting his first 3D printer all set up, and so he made one for me.

So now I need to think of some other random things that could be made (AS IF OUT OF THIN AIR!) by this nifty little device...