A LEGO CNC Pixel Art Generator
If you are ever lucky enough to make the trip to Bilund in Denmark, home of LEGO, you can have your portrait taken and rendered in the plastic bricks as …read more Continue reading A LEGO CNC Pixel Art Generator
Category Archives: pixel art
Upscaling The Sierras
If you played many games back in the mid-80s to 90s, you might remember the iconic graphics from Sierra’s Online Adventure Games. They were brightly colored (16 colors) and dynamic …read more Continue reading Upscaling The Sierras
Alien Art Drawn with Surprisingly Simple Math
Programmer [aemkei] Tweeted the formula (x ^ y) % 9 alongside code for more “alien art”. But how can a formula as simple as (x ^ y) % 9 result …read more Continue reading Alien Art Drawn with Surprisingly Simple Math
The Game Boy Camera, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Pixels
Never underestimate the power of nostalgia. In an age when there are more megapixels stuffed in the sensor of a smartphone camera than the average computer display can even represent, why would jagged images from a 20-year-old grayscale camera with pixels numbering in the thousands still grab attention? Maybe what’s …read more
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Paint the Rainbow with this Skittle-Dropping Pixel Art Robot
We hackers just can’t get enough of sorters for confections like Skittles and M&Ms, the latter clearly being the superior candy in terms of both sorting and snackability. Sorting isn’t just about taking a hopper of every color and making neat monochromatic piles, though. [JohnO3] noticed that all those colorful …read more
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Inside the Pixelated World of Perler Bead Art
I started making beaded crafts as a hobby, but soon I was hooked on the retro aesthetic and the vibrant community that supports it. Continue reading Inside the Pixelated World of Perler Bead Art
Soda Can Lamp Pinpoints Your Interests
We’ve said it a million times before: 3D printing will expand your horizons. The more you print, the more you think about things you could print and new ways to use printing in the process of building projects. [AHNT] knows all about this phenomenon, because he thought of a way to use soda cans as canvases for customizable pixel art lamp shades.
[AHNT] designed a printable sleeve that fits perfectly over 250mL cans. It provides a sturdy grid for poking tiny holes with a medical needle, and can be reused indefinitely with any pattern imaginable. He created two different printable …read more