Star Wars droidflake

Matt sez, "One of our web developers here at The Nerdery made this awesome R2-D2 and C-3PO paper snowflake."

Awesome: we've been cutting snowflakes and paper dollies here with my daughter to everyone's great delight. It's incredibly satisfying work. If I could make one of these droidflakes, I would be the greatest father ever.

R2-D2 and C-3PO Paper Snowflake (Thanks, Matt!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

MORE: Art and Design

More at Boing Boing

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

Hackers prepare for first "national holiday" in their honor

mn_camera

This is not the droid-flake you’re looking for.
futnuh

Snowflakes have six-fold (or less frequently 3-fold) symmetry. It’s only slightly more work to make “proper” hexagonal snowflakes – worth the effort. My kids and I were making them in a restaurant last night while waiting for the meals to arrive.
Anonymous

Proper link for The Nerdery: http://nerdery.com
travtastic

Any chance of getting a pattern?
Anonymous

I sorta backward engineered this to find the pattern… the best i can come up with is this:
1. take a square of paper and fold the top right corner to
the bottom left corner so that it is a big trianlge.
2. fold the triangle in half by folding the top point to the bottom point
3. fold the new triangle once more in half
4. The tricky part is that I was only able to recreate the design
by doing minimal outside edge cutting to form the lines of 3P0′s head, arm and R2′s head Then the small inner leg opening for 3PO on another edge
5. the interesting bit I had to cut with a hobby knife not cutting on the fold .

You too can reverse engineer this if you just print the picture and fold the way I did but inside out. Try it . You’ll see.
Anonymous

I’m so proud I married that nerd; 6 points or no.