Paper Craft Animation of a Water Cycle
Paper engineer Helen Friel created this remarkable paper craft stop motion animation of a water cycle, which takes place in a pop-up book, with collaborators Chris Turner and Jess Deacon.
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Catbus Cat Costume
I won’t pretend like this cat looks like she loves wearing this Catbus costume, but it is such a great idea. No one can pull off Catbus quite like a cat.
Make: Believe Visits Fon Davis
For the second installment in our new series, MAKE: Believe, we visited model maker Fon Davis who has had his fingers in tiny landscapes that have become our favorite big screen worlds.
World’s Biggest LED Cube?
This recent post at Hack a Day, about Utah-based Adaptive Computing’s 163 LED All Spark Cube, spurred an interesting comment thread about the current world record for voxel count in 3D displays using a spatial grid of LEDs. Of course, once you start talking world records, questions start coming up fast: Do monochrome systems count? What about arrangements that are not cubes? Should hobbyist builds be in a separate category from commercial products? Right now, the title holder seems to be…
Blackwork Stop Motion Animation Music Video
Have you seen this awesome blackwork embroidery stop motion animation music video that textile artist Toni Buckby made for the Wet Nuns? I don’t know about you, but just watching it makes my stitching hand hurt! “Why you so cold?” – Wet Nuns from tonibuckby on Vimeo. You can also check out her blog for […]
Dublin Mini Maker Faire: Dig the Scene
Check out this fantastic video romp through the first-ever Irish Maker Faire: Dublin Mini Maker Faire. Hosted at Science Gallery on July 14, the event showcased more than 40 makers, and entertained over 5,000 attendees. The video captures a great range of making: robots, wearable sculpture, a personal space shuttle, cigar box guitars, and crochet. […]
Choosy Photographers Choose GIF
Is everyone having fun at Maker Camp? Yesterday Jared Ficklin joined us, showing everyone how to make awesome animated GIFs. In Jared’s words: “The GIF is an image format from the early days of the interweb that was designed to support animation by stringing together multiple images into one compressed format–kind of like stop-motion animation. […]
