Well crap.

I've been trying several methods for binding fabric to cardboard with limited success (magnets didn't work again...), and have even been hitting a roadblock with binding the corners together.

I'm trying to make these skirts as easy to make as possible such that I can simply create several of them and swap them relatively quickly if worse comes to worse. So far, my usual methods for binding the shape both to itself (fabric to fabric) and to the hovercraft (fabric to cardboard) have been failing me. I've been having limited success with double-sided scotch tape, but I know it won't do. Surprisingly enough super glue, gorilla glue, and even putting a torch to the fabric didn't work. I did find it amusing that hot glue, out of all things, seemed to work the best (but still not good enough for my preference).

The good news is that it's easy enough to cut the fabric on the laser cutter and get some really nice cutouts (fail fast, fail often), although it looks like the fabric that I'm currently using isn't necessarily the best choice. It's quite heavy (think half the thickness of denim pants), and is very hard to shape and in general work with.

While I do still have a month until the AVC, I'd much prefer to be hardware-complete sooner rather than later. I'm just not sure when this'll happen.