Kickstarter Alert: Troxes—Origami Building Blocks
Here’s a Kickstarter project that was pitched to me as “Origami meets LEGO”: Troxes are paper forms that you can use to assemble solid shapes that then interlock with each other.
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Tag: origami
Stack Overflow: Arts & Crafts
Today’s Stack Overflow is all about arts and crafts: coloring books, dot-to-dot books, and other fun activities. Over the past few months I’ve gotten a flood of coloring books, many of them designed for adults. If you’ve visited a bookstore or even an art supplies store lately, you’ve probably seen them: mandalas, cityscapes, animals, and […]
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Geeky Valentine's Day DIY Gifts
Want to give your sweetheart something totally awesome, unique, and affordable? Check out these do-it-yourself geeky valentine’s gifts! From cards to decor, there’s a project for everyone!
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Make Paper Folding Your Superpower With ‘DC Super Heroes Origami’
There’s something a little bit magical about turning a piece of paper into a crane, bear, or dragon through the practice of origami. But turning a piece of paper into Batman? That’s being a flat-out origami superhero.
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Daily #DadJoke for August 25, 2015
My cousin started an origami business…
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Daily #DadJoke for June 25, 2015
There were several Japanese banks that had difficulty this past week…
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Math: All You Need Is Games
When math is just a part of the fun, learning is fun too!
Continue ReadingFolding A Galaxy Far, Far Away With Star Wars Origami
Fold all your favorite ships and characters with Star Wars Origami: 36 Amazing Paper-folding Projects from a Galaxy Far, Far Away.
Continue ReadingCatch up on Origami Yoda’s Adventures in Darth Paper Strikes Back Before the Fortune Wookiee Comes
If you have young Star Wars fans in your house, and they haven’t read Tom Angelberger’s pair of origami-novel love letters to the franchise, I highly recommend you pick them both up now. And if you don’t have young Star Wars fans, but you are yourself perhaps a less-young Star Wars fan, you’ll enjoy them […]
Continue ReadingOCD Geek: Things To Do With Empty Crisp Packets (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
I have a problem: I have a mild case of OCD, causing me to hate untidiness. This is obviously a much bigger problem with little nippers running around constantly leaving clothes lying about and never putting toys away when they’ve …
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The pentagon For the pentagon, you’ll need the thinner, longer starting point again, so fold the edges of your packet into the middle and then fold it half again. (this was a ‘family’ bag, so it will end up bigger …
Continue ReadingOMGami! Awesome Origami by Brian Chan
Brian Chan of the MIT Hobby Shop can fold a pretty mean square of paper. He has a lot of intricate insect origami on his website, but what caught my eye especially were some of his geeky designs, like this …
Continue ReadingHaiku Meets Origami Meets Gaming
Maybe it’s my parenting instinct to try and get the best out of my writers, like I do my kids, but I’ve really enjoyed sharing their talents with a wider audience (the writers rather than the kids) Whereas I restrain …
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