Origami Archive

  • CrunchGear Week in Review: Look to the Sky Edition

    CrunchGear Week in Review: Look to the Sky Edition

    Posted on April 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear: The User’s Manifesto: in defense of hacking, modding, and jailbreaking Hands-On with the Kin 1 and Kin 2 Hyper Telescope: Bandai’s new “science toy” for kids EasyBloom Plus allows nerds to garden like a pro Ancient art of origami applied to complex fabrication techniques

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  • Daily Crunch: The Swan Edition

    Daily Crunch: The Swan Edition

    Posted on April 15, 2010 | No Comments
    A USB cooling seat pad from Brando Samsung warns pregnant women, the elderly, and drunks not to watch 3D TV Ancient art of origami applied to complex fabrication techniques Open thread: WTF is going on with Lost Identify this thing, win a netbook

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  • Ancient art of origami applied to complex fabrication techniques

    Ancient art of origami applied to complex fabrication techniques

    Posted on April 14, 2010 | No Comments
    I think by now we're all fairly familiar with Shapeways and their 3D printing system. Incidentally, you can now select glass for some 3D models at Shapeways, which is pretty cool. But the additive printing process employed by Shapeways and similar outfits (fabrication, rapid prototyping, etc) has some inherent limitations in the designs that can be printed. Researches at the University of Illinois have announced some advances in this field using folding techniques similar to origami

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  • Pellermodel: Bandai lets you build a 3D figure of yourself

    Pellermodel: Bandai lets you build a 3D figure of yourself

    Posted on June 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Even though I live in Japan, I admit I don't know anything about Origami and other techniques to build objects out of paper. Today is also the first time I heard of the Pellermodel concept, the art of creating "true 3D paper objects". Now Bandai is planning to sell "Pellermodel" (brand name) kits, which make it possible for users to build a small, humanoid-like 3D object with one's own face on it (or that of anyone you like). All that users need to do is to upload a face picture, access Bandai's dedicated Pellermodel website [JP], print and attach the picture on the model's head. Your "3D" figure can then be pressed out in seconds.

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