This was one of the most charming projects I saw at Maker Faire, Nyssa’s little micro RC jousters. Such a simple idea, a great project for kids, and one of those things that starts you thinking about other things to do with your tiny RC cars. You could make lots of papercraft skins, have a […]
Christopher Bonnette has some great Halloween-ish paper craft downloads on his site. Patrick the Pumpkin Patch Prince is here, and La Catrina is here. Via Paper Forest
Look at this strange and cool origami skeleton by Marc Kirschenbaum – there are 10 pages of complicated, hand-drawn instructions to make this model!
Thenickboy put together an Instructable for this great anglerfish mask – it’s awesome! LEDs and the little dangly thing and everything.
Tyler at Oddstrument built this neat working paper train whistle model (pdf), designed by Rob Ives of Flying Pig.
Not martha found this great collection of paper box templates – great for gift boxes or storing bits ‘n’ bobs.
Paperforest points us to this excellent article about pop-up book design in the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) newsletter. The article, by artist and paper engineer Ray Marshall and artist Wilson Swain, is about their book, The Castaway Pirates – I’ve seen this book, it’s complicated and awesome. The article starts on […]
