Free Irising Business Card Template
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this business-card-sized working mechanical iris model from clide8. The plan is freely available on Thingiverse.
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Papercraft ring flash
Experiment with a ring flash on the cheap with this DIY papercraft ring flash project from Diego Billi and Sylights. Just plug your camera and flash specs into the Ring Flash Template Creator, print, then cut, fold, and paste. You’ll end up with a nifty little light guide that’ll get you started.
Brad Litwin’s MechaniCards
One of my favorite exhibitors at World Maker Faire was Brad Litwin, who does exquisitely-crafted, whimsical kinetic sculptures. I gave him one of my Editor’s Choice Blue Ribbons. Now, Brad is selling these wonderful crank-powered “MechaniCards.” What a nifty gift. They sell for $45 assembled, $35 for a kit. [Via Boing Boing] MechaniCards More: Brad […]
Stunning animated book papercraft
Via DudeCraft comes this amazing piece of stop-motion animation (papercraft with lots of Photoshop support? All-digital faux papercraft?), done by Andersen M Studios for the New Zealand Book Council. It’s cool however it was accomplished. Anderson M Studios
How-To: Papercraft Oscillating Woodpecker Toy
Over at CRAFT, Rachel Hobson spotted the directions to make this awesome papercraft oscillating woodpecker toy.
Painting on water (aka paper marbling)
MAKE subscriber RabLabit sent us a link to this video of an artist who “paints on water.” What he’s doing is actually paper marbling, a form of “aqueous surface design.” You’ve certainly seen marbled book or journal end-papers, for instance. Those pattens are created using this process. The video is a little… meditative, but the […]
Papercraft softbox
Low on funds after dropping serious coin on that Canon 5D Mark II outfit and need a simple softbox to diffuse a flash? If you find yourself in a similar situation, check out this papercraft softbox from maker Julian Schüngel.
