plywood

But in 2015 it looks like a development board on scrap plywood with wood screws is the only choice.

It is also not necessary to drill a pilot hole when drilling normal wood screws into typical construction pine or plywood.

We built our giant whiteboard with showerboard backed by plywood (the plywood turned out to be unnecessary, though.) For a giant blackboard, I'd use blackboard paint on smooth plywood.

In California for example, you are looking at a lot of plywood and insulation mostly.

My treehouse was a 4x4 sheet of plywood with 2 2' 2x4's cut for bracing stuck/nailed in the crotch of a tree.

I built a 9 inch Newtonian using bought mirrors and focuser, and plywood etc for everything else.

You can play with materials a little for the surface -- I used plywood and mousepads.

I built an electronic drumset out of PVC pipe and plywood and taught myself how to play drums with it.

Have they taken a leaf out of the plywood industry where everything is measured width and height in feet and inches and depth in mm...

Years ago some Researcher put a plywood cover on his truck.

People who use Star Trek as a template for a post-scarcity, post-capitalist economy need to realize that universe was built out of plywood, cell-tape and bullshit.

Not to diminish Matthias' amazing abilities, but only to highlight the challenges that go into making anything out of wood: plywood, isn't really wood per se.

Mousepads are a little soft (the traditional 3/8" thick foam rubber with a cloth backing type...), Different thicknesses of plywood affect sensitivity, etc.

The Noguchi table and the Eames plywood chair in the "Modern Furniture" article you linked to would also be regarded as midcentury modern.

You could easily make an unpressurized one though, I made an autoclave for a 15"x8" solar car body I designed in college out of plywood, insulation, and a heater/thermostat.

As for my "case," I just attach everything to a piece of scrap plywood with wood screws, in the original sense of the "breadboard."