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Play-Doh Drops a Deuce with Their Poop Emoji Playset

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So this is where we are in the 21st century. No flying car in the garage, no robot serving me beer at home, no transporter beams… and now we have a toy that teaches our kids to play with poop. This is the world we live in, folks. This new toy is called the Play-Doh Poop Troop playset, and it’s the sh*t.

For $14.99, kids get twelve cans of Play-Doh, and four of them are brown naturally. It also comes with over 50 accessories so you can dress your Play-Doh poop up Mr. Potato Head style. According to the photo, there’s a dog turd too. How long until this is normalized so much that kids start playing with real poop?

Actually, I want to get in on this poop toy action. I’m going to market a new line of poop-themed toys under the brand “E. coli”. Our first product is a fast-paced board game called “Dire-Rhea.” Should be a real floater for our company, but you never know, it may just stink. We have new products every Turds-day.

Come on guys, don’t let your kids play with poop, fake or otherwise. It’s called dignity. Let them have some.

[via Boing Boing via Geekologie]

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Great Scott! Watch an Artist Sculpt a Tiny Doc Brown Sculpture from Scratch

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Juliana Lepine makes all kinds of intricate figurines from clay, and it’s always a treat to watch her create new life out of nothing. She usually starts with a skeleton and builds the face right on top like a forensics genius. In the video below she makes one of her coolest creations yet. Doc Emmett Brown from Back to the Future.

First she puts some eyes on the skeleton, then adds a bit of skin and that’s when the sculpting magic begins. Doc Brown comes to life before our very eyes. The she builds his body with some wire and a skeleton. There are also some layers of foil and masking tape. After that she adds the skin and sculpts it to perfection. And since you can’t have Doc Brown running around naked with Marty, she dresses him up in some screen-accurate clothing.

The level of detail that she puts into each handmade piece is just incredible. I mean, just look at his sneakers alone. She even gave him his remote control accessory. When it is all done, we have a droolworthy sculpture that any fan would pay dearly to own and add to their collection.

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This SNES Micro Was Sculpted from Clay, Plastic and a Raspberry Pi

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I played the heck out of the Super Nintendo back in the day. If you want to get in on some classic emulation in a package much smaller than the original SNES, this is for you. Rated-E mods has put together a very small emulation system that looks like a SNES but has the heart of a Raspberry Pi Zero.

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The bulk of the project was building a clay and plastic case to hold the tiny circuit board. Its maker started by cutting up a sheet of plastic for the frame. He then covered the chassis with clay and allowed it to cure.

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After curing was done, he sanded the case and applied Bondo to fill all the cracks. Modeling paint was then used to color the case, and the electronics were added with epoxy and elbow grease. The final product is a small and very cool emulator that I’d love to play.

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[via Facebook]

Modeling Clay Electronics Kit for Kids: Squishy Circuits

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You might not know it, but Play-Doh and similarly made modeling clay are conductive, which makes them a great way to introduce electronics to kids. Squishy Circuits has kits and recipes for both conductive and insulating clay. They recently turned to Kickstarter to raise money to make better kits and more projects.

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Both the current and the upcoming Squishy Circuits kits come with a 4 AA battery pack to power your electronic creations, but the contents of the lone original kit will be distributed or expanded among the three new kits to give you more options. The components in these new kits will also be more durable, safer and easier to manufacture compared to the ones in the original kit.

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University of St. Thomas Engineering professor AnnMarie Thomas and her then students Samuel Johnson and Matthew Schmidtbauer developed the Squishy Circuits project back in 2010.  The following year Matthew spun off the project into a commercial company. You can still purchase the current Squishy Circuits kit and get the recipe for the clays from its current website, but both the current kit and that site will be phased out soon (the new site is here).

Pledge at least $8 (USD) on Kickstarter to receive a Squishy Circuits kit as a reward.

[via Geeky Gadgets]

 

Cx5 Sculptable 3D Printing Filament: Man and Machine, Artist Extreme

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We’ve seen a 3D printer that can print with clay. Adam Beane Industries’ upcoming Cx5 filament on the other hand can behave like clay when heated, allowing you to easily modify or refine a printed object.

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Although the company has yet to divulge specifics on its new product, the filament is most likely based on the company’s eponymous sculpting material, which is durable and strong when cool, behaves like clay when heated to 125ºF (~52ºC) and becomes practically a liquid if heated further. Here’s the teaser for the filament:

The obvious use for such a filament is of course to print an object’s rough shape and then fill in the details by hand, but it could also save you a ton of time and headaches if by letting you make up for printing or modeling errors. Keep an eye on Adam Beane Industries’ blog or Facebook page for updates.

[via 3D Print]

These Polymer Clay Dragons Will Hold Your Dice and Game Stuff

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Need something to hold your D20 or other game accessories? Try these awesome handmade polymer dragons from Etsy artist How Many Dragons. These 2-inch-tall polymer clay dragons are the perfect little friends to hold your dice until you need to roll.
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Choose whatever color combination you want and they will make it for you. You can choose from several styles or different poses too. They are really the perfect little gaming friends. They are small enough to sit by you while you play and not get in your way.

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Each one sells for about $42 to $52(USD). They will definitely be your new good luck charm for rolling that critical hit.

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[via Geeks Are Sexy]

Forensics Reveal the Face of Crystal Head Vodka

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You know how forensic artists are. They can’t pass up an opportunity to take a skull and see what it looked like when it was alive. They might even be curious to see what the skull-shaped bottle of Crystal Head Vodka looked like, had it been living. Forensic artist Nigel Cockerton was just this curious.
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So he got a bottle of Crystal Head Vodka and went to work, wondering just what that laughing face would look like covered with muscle, eyes, and skin.

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The results are kind of what you would expect. It looks like a drunk guy laughing his ass off.

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So now you have a face to think about when you are drinking straight from this bottle. As you drink, you are going to look more and more like this guy too.

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[Facebook via cheezburger via Neatorama]