Robots are cool. Do a search on “robot” at etsy.com and you’ll get more than 2,000 results. Flickr serves up another 1,500. Plushies, etched glass, metalworks - anything goes for making robots. Here are a few:

Emmett’s Robot

Bitterbethany was inspired by Jess Hutchinson and Hillary Lang to make this soft robot. The zipper mouth and snap buttons are great details!

• Emmett’s Robot by Bitterbethany

Robie Robot

Here’s another robot inspired by Hillary Lang of Wee Wonderfuls. Check out sknittymama’s Flickr for more robots.

• Robie Robot by sknittymama

Ivy’s Robot

Melisdramatic traced her daughter Ivy’s robot drawing to do this embroidery. What is this robot thinking?

• Ivy’s Robot by Melisdramatic

My First Robot

And another from Jess Hutchinson’s “Unusual Toys for You to Knit and Enjoy.” This was Lily Dustbin’s first robot attempt. Naturally, she plans on knitting more. There’s no such thing as too many robots.

• My First Robot by Lilydustbin

Robot Brooches

These cute little robot brooches are made of felt. And they’re a miniature version of Andricongirl’s larger robots.

• Robot Brooches by Andricongirl

David the Unappreciated Robot

I really love this ugly tie / vinyl robot combination. Click through to The Rocket Workshop’s Flickr to read the elaborate tale of David the Unappreciated Robot’s work life.

• David the Unappreciated Robot by The Rocket Workshop

Bride and Groom Robots

My Imaginary Boyfriend made these cute, felt robots as part of a Craft A Day challenge. She plans on attaching plastic bases to these his-and-hers robots so they can be used as wedding cake toppers.

• Bride and Groom Robots by My Imaginary Boyfriend

Robot Geek in Love

This sweet robot print is available from CraftieRobot’s Etsy shop. At 8 1/2 x 11 inches, it would make a great addition to the wall of any room.

• Robot Geek in Love by CraftieRobot

Angry Robot Pouch

This robot is fun *and* functional :) Unzip his mouth to store your money and other small things. Also, I’m just a sucker for glitter vinyl.

• Angry Robot Pouch by Anatomyofaskirt

Robot Shot Glass

BreadandBadger is freehand-etching shot glasses with a rotary tool for your drinking needs. No two robots are alike.

• Robot Shot Glass by BreadandBadger

Shopping Robot Market Bags

Reusable shopping bags are all the rage right now, as they should be. Go green with these screen-printed robot bags.

• Shopping Robot Market Bags by DogboneArt

Ollie

Guy Robot turns junk into robots. Be sure to check out his entire web site for robot-y goodness. This here is Ollie:

“Ollie is one tough robot, built to handle a heap of abuse. Rocks and worse just bounce off of his head. Ollie’s body armor is bomb-squad certified, he can squat thrust twice his weight. Once, on a dare, he did eleven thousand pull-ups.”

• Ollie by Guy Robot

Robot Invasion Instructable

Thanks to MrMunki and instructables, you can make robots too. These ornaments are even solar-powered. Now get to it!

• Robot Invasion Instructable by MrMunki

This weekend we’re taking a look at crafts based on old-school Nintendo controllers. (We’ll look at mod-ed controllers another week.)

1. Nintendo Controller Perler Bead Business Card Holder

Etsy seller Lost Mitten has this one-of-a-kind business card holder available in her shop. Made of fused Perler beads, this will look great on any geek’s desk.

• Nintendo Controller Perler Bead Business Card Holder from Lost Mitten

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I happened to visit NerdyShirts tonight at just past midnight EST and saw they were having a $1 sale! I picked up two Don’t Hate The Player tees and one (misprint) Free Hugs tee. $3 plus $8 shipping so $11 total for three t-shirts! SWEET!

They say they are doing this all week with new items each day!

multibeavo posted this Goomba t-shirt on Craftster today. She made it for her son using contact paper to make a stencil. The ringer tee looks perfect with this!

• Goomba T-Shirt

Cook long and prosper?

Flickr user Nix Sidhe made this ridiculously awesome Spock apron for her boyfriend. Star Trek fans who also cook, rejoice! I’m dying to know if she found fabric with a giant Spock or if she had some other clever way of making it so big.

• Spock Apron at Flickr

Etsy seller nodemo (short for no demographic) hand-prints these Ghost Party t-shirts to order. They’re available in mens and ladies fits and lots of colors.

• Ghost Party T-shirt on Etsy

Beware Cylons. Craftster user Bunny in a Bear made this Battlestar Galactica logo t-shirt. He ironed on freezer paper as a stencil. This method has been making the Internet rounds for the past year or so. Freezer paper stencils are like single-use silk screens.

• Battlestar Galactica logo t-shirt
• Freezer paper stencil instructions from Angry Chicken

Craftster.org user subloke made this Transformers toque based on Baigneuse’s version, who made hers based on Flickr user twosixteen’s chart. Subloke even made the Transformers hat reversible - one side has Autobot and Decepticon icons and the other side says “more than meets the eye.”

She was even kind enough to post the pattern and instructions to the Transformers hat so anyone with the skillz can make one too!

• Transformers toque forum post/description
• Transformers pattern (PDF)

This is one geek craft that I actually made myself. I used a $40 screenprinting set I bought at Michael’s to do it. It has 3 invaders on the front right and a single invader on the back in the top middle next to the neck line. I did only one pass with white ink on a black tee and it looks kind of greyish - just like the original B&W Space Invaders arcade game.

I ended up doing about 10 shirts in various ink/shirt color combinations but none looked as good as the black and white. For the invaders, I simply used MAME and took a screenshot of Space Invaders and I enlarged it on-screen to the right size then I printed it out onto transparency paper and used that to make the screen.

It was my first attempt at screenprinting and it really did turn out great. It’s one of my favorites tees - all the better cause I made it myself.