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[SwimOdin]

What are perler beads?

Just the best thing ever. You put the beads on a grid, iron them, and they stick together. Perfect for making sprite art.











My brother did all these, it's probably the most badass thing he's ever done.

[ex0du5]

I was thinking a pearl necklace when I first read the thread title.

Neat.

[JDUB X]

I was thinking about a different kind of "Beads", but this is awesome too.

[minus_273]

I was thinking about a different kind of "Beads", but this is awesome too.

when i saw the title and the 56k warning i.e. images i was expecting someone to commit account suicide.

[Outlaw Moogle]

In before Kirbu yells at me for not making anything anymore with my Perler beads.

[Kirbutashi]

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[Indy aka Rex]

Who the fuck still uses 56k?

[SwimOdin]

Who the fuck still uses 56k?

Probably no one, I was harkening back to the days when I saw that on forums.

[ness08]

Year before last when I was in MS for a while I had to use 56k. Amazing how long it would take songs to download (legally through emusic) Worst year of my life (not really, but pretty f*ing close)

[ConanOBrien]

Is there a place you can get designs and things to copy because I have little to no artistic ability.

[SwimOdin]

Is there a place you can get designs and things to copy because I have little to no artistic ability.

http://www.spritestitch.com/

Great blog for a bunch of crafty video game stuff

[RareMonkey]

this makes me want to do artsy cool things like this.

[Wenny]

Who the fuck still uses 56k?

Broadband penetration in the US is still under 55% last time I checked and only growing at 2-3 percent a year.

[mrplaid]

http://www.spritestitch.com/

Great blog for a bunch of crafty video game stuff

Wow. That is awesome.

[DogsWithJobs]

Broadband penetration in the US is still under 55% last time I checked and only growing at 2-3 percent a year.

Seriously? I couldn't imagine using 56k anymore, anything past e-mail and simple web browsing would be unbearable. Web applications are no longer designed for 56k.

Granted that could mean they have no internet at all, which is pretty much every old person. If we are only losing them at 2-3 percent a year that is too slow!

[Kirbutashi]

Broadband penetration in the US is still under 55% last time I checked and only growing at 2-3 percent a year.

57 now

[Tron]

You live in a major city, according to your little info, there. Try going outside those cities. It's pathetic how our behind our infrastructure is.

[Wenny]

57 now

Please tell me you read the actual report with it's flawed data before posting....the real number is very hard to come by since some providers actively lie. A different report listed the state of Kentucky as having 100% broadband penetration which is a joke.

[SwimOdin]

Only on the P1P boards can a thread about beads devolve into a debate about broadband penetration.

[Indy aka Rex]

Broadband penetration in the US is still under 55% last time I checked and only growing at 2-3 percent a year.

Obviously that 45 (43) percent doesn't come here!

[RareMonkey]

when my roomate has to do some of his remote work for his job. The places he dial's into are still using 28.8 it is really pathetic watching him have to move like 14mb files over that.

[Indy aka Rex]

when my roomate has to do some of his remote work for his job. The places he dial's into are still using 28.8 it is really pathetic watching him have to move like 14mb files over that.

28.8? Damn, isn't that like 1-2kbps? By the time he's done fapping the picture would've reached her navel.

[SwimOdin]

Posted these earlier but I guess the post disappeared



This one is a work in progress

[PlayerOnePhil]

I finally started messing around with Perler Beads. I made a post about it on our blog.

Long story short: these things are awesome.

Oh, SwimOdin...your Mega Man sprite seems to be missing the tip of his Mega Buster.

[Cerulean Blue]

Oh, SwimOdin...your Mega Man sprite seems to be missing the tip of his Mega Buster.

Mega Man was circumcised.

[redrock963]

I finally started messing around with Perler Beads. I made a post about it on our blog.

Long story short: these things are awesome.

Oh, SwimOdin...your Mega Man sprite seems to be missing the tip of his Mega Buster.

That Splash woman sprite looks pretty killer man.

I wonder how hard 16 bit sprites are to work with with those. I'd love to make me a whole Sonic and Knuckles set.

[SwimOdin]

I wonder how hard 16 bit sprites are to work with with those. I'd love to make me a whole Sonic and Knuckles set.

It really depends on the game and the sprite. The sprite for Sonic is small so it wouldn't be difficult, but since 16 bit games have more colors, you might also need more variety in your bead colors to get an accurate look.

Thanks for the link on the front page, Phil. When I saw it I called my brother immediately. He's finishing up the Mike Tyson ring, if I can find some pictures I'll post them

[SwimOdin]

Some new stuff








And the masterpiece is almost done, he needs some more white for the letters and some pinkish for Soda Popinsky and Super Macho Man

[Wenny]

Very nice!

[skumchunk]

Sweet! I think I just found my newest obsession.

[PlayerOnePhil]

Those Punch-Out!! sprites are fantastic!

Since I posted that blog entry about Perler Beads, I whipped up a couple more. Here are my latest creations.



This is, of course, Mario from the original Super Mario Bros. I originally just made regular and super Mario, but then I realized that I needed to make a mushroom to show the transition.



These are sprites from the Mega Man parody Stinkoman 20X6 over at Homestar Runner. The fellow on the left is Stinkoman himself (the videogame version of Strong Bad) and the guy on the right is 1-Up, Homestar Runner's alter ego.

I also wanted to show off the snazzy drawers that I picked up at The Container Store. They were about $14 each, and each drawer perfectly holds 1000 beads, exactly the amount that you get when you order individual colors from the Perler Beads website.

[redrock963]

Heh, I think it's funny that you made a point to arrange the colors of the beads on your drawers in rainbow order, instead of alphabetical order.

Are you going to make Trogdor and the burned peasants? Or do Atari era sprites not translate well.

[PlayerOnePhil]

Heh, I think it's funny that you made a point to arrange the colors of the beads on your drawers in rainbow order, instead of alphabetical order.

Are you going to make Trogdor and the burned peasants? Or do Atari era sprites not translate well.

Normally I'm an alphabetical order kind of guy (as my game/movie libraries would prove), but that would be impractical for the beads. If I need to grab a particular shade of blue, for example, I want them all grouped together so that I can quickly compare which one best matches the original sprite. If they were in alphabetical order, the blues would be scattered too far apart.

And yes, I'll probably get around to making a Trogdor and peasant at some point.

[drunkmessiah]

A guy I went to college with chastised me about keeping my dvd's in alphabetical order.
To my shame I de-alphabetasised them as soon as he left.
I no longer buy dvds.

[SwimOdin]

He's gone back to cross-stitching some



Might be setting up a store on Etsy

[atat23]

I'm really tempted to do some of this myself, don't know what i'd actually do with them once I'm done but they do look awesome.


How is the cross stitching done, is it on the cap or on something else then attached to the cap later?

[BeauRosser]

The fact that this thread exists and that we're so into it proves how nerdy we all are.

These are rad.

[Darkwing Duck]

I did something like this with cupcakes instead of beads.

[SwimOdin]

I'm really tempted to do some of this myself, don't know what i'd actually do with them once I'm done but they do look awesome.


How is the cross stitching done, is it on the cap or on something else then attached to the cap later?

He cross stiches them onto some sort of plastic grid, then sows that onto the cap.

[atat23]

It took me a while to actually find a place I could get beads, looked at a load of online perler suppliers but the shipping to Ireland was doubling the price.

What I found out though was that the european equivalent are called Hama beads and what's better is they do them in mini beads. It means anything you make is basically the quarter of the size and although I like the 8 bit stuff I do plan on maiking some 16 bit stuff with a bit more detail, the size some of them would probably turn out as was off puttting with the normal beads but with the mini ones they should be a managable size. They are apparently a bit harder to work with but I have girly hands anyway so shouldn't be a problem.

My order has now shipped so I'll try and post again if I manage to make anything decent.