May
2
May
1
Chainmaille Dragon
I was aimlessly wandering around Facebook, as one does, and in my journeys I came across a small page called simply Chain Mail, and on it was the gorgeous dragon above! It was made by the admin Rain who has her own blog with lots of other crafty and day to day goodness.
- Chain Mail by Rain (and Phil) on Facebook
- Rain’s blog D.I.Y. Daily
- See more Chainmaille at Geek Crafts
- See more dragons at Geek Crafts
May
1
TARDIS Pinata
It’s finally May, the sun is shining and every country seems to have some kind of holiday right now. Yes, it’s time for a festive craft!
Instructable’s Mostlymade shows us some heavily detailed instructions for a TARDIS pinata. For those of you who don’t want to break down anything that even remotely looks like a police box, the pinata comes with pull strings. However, if you’re sure the TARDIS doesn’t like you, feel free to use a baseball bat. Now, wouldn’t it be great if this one was bigger on the inside too? Imagine all the candy that could fit into it…
- TARDIS pinata at Instructables
- More Doctor Who on Geek Crafts
- More TARDIS on Geek Crafts
- More tutorials on Geek Crafts
May
1
World’s Smallest Stop Motion Pixel Art: IBM’s “A Boy and his Atom”
Now THIS is a GeekCraft: A Boy And His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie
Okay, so you need a $214 BILLION company to sponsor you to make one of these for yourself, but this is pixel art at its most tiny, and science at its most frivolous.
IBM this week released their mini stop-motion movie made using atoms. Yep, those dots acting as pixels are carbon monoxide molecules – two stacked carbon atoms – which have been manipulated frame-by-frame to create a story about a boy and his atom. It took a small team two weeks to complete using a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), which uses quantum physics to move atoms and molecules around. The video has earned IBM a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the teeniest tiniest stop motion film.
Want to know more? Watch the second film all about how they made it: Moving Atoms: Making The World’s Smallest Movie
April
30
Tutorial: Lucky Origami Nintendo Stars
Recently I had to have a late-night conference call for work. It went for two hours and ended at midnight. However, thanks to the wonders of hands-free kits I was able to do some geeky crafting at the same time, so it didn’t feel like much of my evening had been swallowed up by work stuff after all!
Itty bitty paper Nintendo Stars are really easy and quick to make, and the more you make of them the better they look. If you don’t know how to make these tiny origami stars, keep reading for a quick tutorial.
April
30
Floppy Disk Pouch
Remember the days before Dropbox and external hard disks a TB in size? Back then, we used floppy disks. The ones I had were 3 1/2 inch in diameter and could hold a wopping 1.44 MB. That’s not even a single .mp3! I remember transferring .docs and Game Boy roms I downloaded downstairs to my own little pc in my bedroom. Ah, life was so simple back then.
If you’re longing for the good ol’ days, Etsy-user Lindsay Porter has just the right thing for your. This floppy-shaped 100% wool felt pouch contains a neatly hidden zipper and can hold your money, keys, or even a ‘real floppy disk’. She also sells miniature Game Boys and mix tapes at her shop, Brave Moonman.
- The floppy disk pouch
- Lindsay’s shop
- More floppy disks on Geek Crafts