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Author: Mj2

  • Magic Cube

    Magic Cube

    We are opening a new category: “Toys” with something we did out of curiosity, (which is our weakness), a few years ago, when came to our hands a puzzle. Well, It is not really a puzzle, because one must not think anything, just manipulate it, so that in a curious way they appear images. Generally we have seen as a funny advertising medium and it was fun to see how we could build one.

    In this case I decided to personalize it with images of my town, Villavieja Yeltes in the province of Salamanca (Spain), and the truth is that it was quite successful among my countrymen that year.

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMS0qyG4c0Q[/youtube]

    So much so we finally made some of them personalized as a gift for a birthday and a wedding.

    It is built with blocks of wood, laser prints with a good resolution and laminated to prevent spoilage with use.

    Following this toy, I studied the Kaleidocycle, a rotating object created with paper, rather curious. Starting with a flat surface (a sheet) folded in a certain way, you can turn on itself showing the different faces. The truth is that when we made it, I spent hours turning over and around. You can learn more about them here

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF8Pxop_RFM[/youtube]

    According to the Wikipedia article, the cube we have shown at the beginning of this post is also a variety of kaleidocycle, reading it, I’ve discovered this Yoshimoto cube (coming soon…)

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQtbcgBWobA[/youtube]

    Visit our store and ask us for a budget with your photos

  • My helmet.

    My helmet.

    A year ago I got my license to drive motorcycles. For practices, I bought a helmet. A silver-gray modular helmet completely with a few black ornaments. When I could have a motorcycle, also gray-silver, I decided to customize the helmet.

    Mi casco
    My helmet.

    As a fan of Star Wars, I thought of putting the Rebel Alliance symbol behind big. As it seemed to me little I found some pictures online of helmets of the Clone Troopers that I loved it, and I said they are going to put the helmet. Again the advantages of having a vinyl cutter. I got to work and cut everything that was going to put the helmet on black vinyl. The helmets of the clone troopers, did not pose any problem in placing them. The symbol of the Alliance was more difficult to put the helmet because there is almost spherical, i.e., is curved from left to right and top to bottom. This part, the most complicated, requiring the use of a hair dryer ordinary and heating the vinyl while it located as this will stretch the vinyl and it sticks better. That if you must be very careful as to stretch the vinyl, also deforms, so we have to try that in place, never lose their shape

    Trasera
    Back of the helmet.

    And this was all for today.

  • Harry Potter’s Howler

    Harry Potter’s Howler

    ¿What’s a Howler? Well according to the world of Harry Potter created by JK Rowling, a Howler is a magical letter which it read itself with a loud and aggressive tone, like a reprimand. Well, in the long saga of Harry Potter this scene appears in the second film in the series, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and Ron Weasley it receives from his mother. The Howler reads as follows:

    Ronald Weasley! How dare you steal that car! I am absolutely disgusted! Your father’s now facing an enguiry

    at work & it’s all your fault! If you put another toe out

    of line we’ll bring you straight home!Oh, and Ginny dear,

    congratulations on making Gryffindor, Your father and I

    are so proud! Pfrrrrrrrrr!!

    Here you have our version of the Howler, that if, it does not move and it does not scream, but there is more than pretty is to me, personally, I like more this version because although it does not move and it does not scream, neither it is  “destroys” when you finish reading. Made of aluminum and attached to a wooden base with a screw. The sense of stability and rigidity is very good and as a decorative element freak is tremendous.

    Howler
    Réplica del Howler
    I hope you enjoy it as much as we.

    Available in our store