I have spent much of the last two weeks exploring things that transition from 2D to 3D. Recently I remembered just how cool balsa wood gliders were. I searched around our FabLab and found that we had some balsa wood stock. I set out to make a simple laser cut glider. Thus far I have taken it through two iterations although the first may actually fly better than the second. I found that a very good way to allow for selective weighting of the aircraft was to take two neodymium magnets and sandwich them across the nose of the aircraft (as pictured) the movement of the magnets allowing iterative experimentation of how changes in the center of mass of an airplane affects its flight.