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Glass Robot Invasion From Oregon

Sure, you could build a robot with things like circuit boards and solder and allen wrenches, and it could, you know, do stuff.
Or, you could do what Eric Bailey does: Take some glass into your home-built-and-wired workshop and use some serious heat to turn it into a slick-looking retro-bot. Art? Check. DIY? Check. Geek? No […] Continue reading

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100 Games + 100 Cupcakes = Sweet!

We’ve posted about cool cake art on GeekDad before, and about cupcakes, and of course about games. But we’ve never posted about all three topics at once, until now.
A graphic design and jewelry artist named Robin Dahlberg and several of her housemates made a set of one hundred of the most awesome cupcakes ever. Each […] Continue reading

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You, Too, Can Make Amazingly Beautiful Fractals With Apophysis

I’ve loved fractals since I was a kid. I remember writing lots of programs to generate them when I was in high school, including (just because I could) programming my graphing calculator to display a monochromatic version of the Mandelbrot set. Fractals are the perfect intersection of math and art, but they’re not easy for […] Continue reading

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