Pawfectgifts, a crocheter over at Craftster from San Jose, CA, recently posted about her latest creation, a yarny C-3P0. He is 14″ tall with movable arm/elbow joints. For more of Pawfectgifts’ creations, check out her Etsy store.
Last week I shared NeedleNoodle’s Ray Gun pattern in both knit and crochet. I should have know bettern than to just stop there. She has tons of great patterns for lots of geeky knitting and crochet. Two patterns caught my eye as too more to share of their work.
First up a crochet hot air balloon. Its oh so very cute. And the size states it can hold a lego minifig
But it gets better. There is also an airship.
Look at that air ship, my first thought was combining these two patterns, and making a Steampunk themed baby mobile. I just need to find a baby. Plan B – Christmas ornaments, imagine these done in sparkle yarn, add a chain to hang them from. And you have unbreakable pretty for the tree.
Both patterns like before are available for purchase on Etsy and Ravelry.
Back in the day we used to be big fans of the TV cartoon show “The Animaniacs.” They were just so wacky and the dialogue was so clever, we were always giggling, if not outright guffawing, even as adults.
So imagine my joy at finding a Wakko amigurumi doll on Craftster by BunnieBard, complete with pattern. I think my husband would love to have one of these for his office.
What about you? Did you watch Animaniacs when it was on (back in 1993-1998)? Which character was your favorite?
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I’m getting used to being in total awe of some of the creativity, innovation, and pure genius displayed by people all over the Internet. The Geek collective especially seems to be amply blessed in all three departments, and this Instructable inspired by the wonderful Close Encounters of the Third Kind, posted by LeoneLabs, is no exception.
Admittedly, this isn’t your easy-to-recreate kind of geekcraft. You’ll need to get your head around electronics, microcontrollers, a bit of code, and it looks like you’d need a fair bit of patience to do all of the optimising and stuff that LeoneLabs goes into in the later steps. The components and materials also cost in the region of $550, but when you look at the results (and there are more awesome images to drool over if you follow the link), it looks like $550 well spent!
Personally, I have nothing further than GCSE (10th grade) electronics knowledge, and probably even less experience wth microcontrollers. So I will just sit back and marvel at the greatness that is PixelBrite, and wish I had one. Or four.
