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How-To: Mario-Inspired Rainbow Road Coffee Cuff

How-To: Mario-Inspired Rainbow Road Coffee Cuff

Wild Olive is currently wrapping up a week of Mario-inspired crafts, and one of my favorite projects is this awesome rainbow road coffee cuff!

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Geeky Aluminum Can Sculptures

Geeky Aluminum Can Sculptures

Japanese artist-maker Makaon turns trash into treasure, making papercraft-like sculptures out of discarded aluminum cans.

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Lego Mario Bros Aquarium

Lego Mario Bros Aquarium

Redditor jennyleighb’s roommate built a seascape from Lego with a Super Mario Bros. theme. I’m not sure how much the fish appreciate it, but this is definitely the most geek-tastic fish tank I’ve ever seen.

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Score Coins Like Mario, But in Real Life

Score Coins Like Mario, But in Real Life

Instructable user Bruno created this fun real life Super Mario Bros. coin block, which pops out legal tender when it’s hit from the bottom. A 555 timer controls a servo motor to push the coins out of the top while an MP3 player plays the appropriate sound effect. Luckily for us, Bruno painstakingly detailed the […]

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Mario eeepc

Mario eeepc

Taking devotion to Mario to a whole new level is this eeepc etching by flickr user Revolvingdork. This project taught me 2 things: 1. 70% speed 40% power are good settings for etching with an Epilog on an eeepc. 2. The levels in Mario really weren’t that many screens long! You can pick up an […]

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Scrolling Mario game in Scratch

Scrolling Mario game in Scratch

John created a scrolling game by using Scratch. By using the GUI based programming environment, he was able to create his own version of Mario. The game isn’t fully complete, but it has a lot of good going for it. You can play his game by visiting the project’s page on the Scratch site. If […]

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