By way of the fine folks at Boing Boing comes word of this awesome site featuring dozens of papercraft spaceship models from the Wing Commander series of games, from the main Wing Commander titles, through Privateer, and spin-offs like Armada. Paper Commander
Patti writes on New World Geek: I really like playing with papercraft – it doesn’t cost much to make projects, and they can be incredibly complex and interesting. Paper Forest posted about this wonderful spinning star – I’ve watched this video over and over, trying to figure out the movement and why it’s so elegant. […]
Blue Bird Card By Jessica Okui This little Blue Bird Card was inspired by an online avatar, proof that inspiration can come from anything. The wing swivels out to reveal the message, as if the bird is telling a secret. Here’s how I did it, if you’d like to make one to send to a […]
Here’s a craft project I could get into: turning all of those old 3.5″ floppy disks into turntables on greeting cards. Good way to wrap the ubiquitous iTunes Gift Card. Making a moving turntable greeting card from a floppy disk
Paper Forest has a post about a Japanese artist living in France, Aoyama Hina. Hina says of her work: They are super fine lacy-paper-cuttings done by a simple pair of scissors. My passion is to create a finest cutoff beyond the level of the very time-consuming needle lace making. I don’t follow traditional but I […]
So much time at your desk, so much raw material in the office supply room. What to do? Make monitor juju, decorate your geekosphere, construct marvelous models that’ll delight and confound your coworkers. Here are a few of our favorite projects we’ve run into over the years for turning office (and corner coffee shop) supplies […]
This in from the comments: Back in the late 80s, Maarten van Gelder had already come up with a set of origami gears: Neat gears, but they only tell part of the story. Van Gelder’s work is amazing, and his commitment to help explain it is fantastic. Maarten van Gelder is a retired programmer, who […]
