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Pixelhobby: Mario

Recently, my mother opened her hobby shop. One day before opening she got an offer from someone at Pixelhobby, and she decided to sell it along with the stuff she’d already stocked. Pixelhobby now accounts for a large part of her profits.

But what is it? Well, remember Ministeck? Pixelhobby works the other way around: you have a piece of plastic with pins on it, and you push little square pieces of plastic with holes in them over the pins. Where Ministeck had pieces with 2 or more pins (think tetris blocks), Pixelhobby only has pieces with 1 hole. When I looked at this for the first time I had one association with it that wouldn’t leave my mind: oldskool gaming! Therefore I decided to go with one of my favourite games from when I was young, which is Mario 3. This is the result ^_^

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Look here for a closeup.

Edit: I’ll give a more detailed description of how it was made. First I got the picture off the internet. Then I used a program called Pixelhobby Designer to make it into a pixelated picture (it’s downloadable from their site, Windows-only afaik). I bought the colours and the plastic boards I needed, as was detailed by the pattern I printed out. Then I put a plastic board on the pattern, which looks like this, and I filled in the squares, circles, triangles and crosses with the four corresponding colours. After that, I put the board on the next pattern. It takes ages and you have to be careful not to mess it up, but it’s worth the effort :)

12 comments to Pixelhobby: Mario

  • kim

    Super!
    Is er ook een Mac versie van Pixelhobby???
    Of een ander soortgelijk progr. voor de mac?
    Tanx
    Kim

  • You can’t just order them ready and everything, it’s like Ministeck… you order the parts (and in this case, you make the pattern yourself, I’m afraid I no longer have the original pattern for this one but making one with Pixelhobby Designer is a breeze), you put it together and then you frame it. My mother sells the parts among many other shops listed on http://www.pixelhobby.com :)

  • Where can I order one of these? would look GREAT on my wall :)

  • Toffe pixelplaat Marjolein, ga zo door

    Marjolein, maak maar ff lekker reclame voor mijn winkeltje.
    Vanaf nu ook DMC-garen te shoppen bij mij.
    Dus wie interesse heeft??? Vraag maar aan Marjolein

  • Simmie

    LEIPE SHIT OUWE!

  • Daphne

    woow vet coowl =D echt leuk gemaakt

  • Oh shit ja Cailin, ik zal je er nog even over terugmailen. Het leven is een beetje een chaos momenteel :)
    @ Steffen: ik zei ook niet dat Ministeck geen 1-pins stukjes heeft, ik zei alleen dat het -ook- grotere stukjes heeft :)
    @Mactijn: zie post ^_^

  • wauw, gaaf :)

    Kun je wat meer vertellen over het proces (screenshot, kleurkeuze etec) ?

  • Hippe shizzle!!! Ziet er tof uit.
    Ik zit al tijden met een idee voor’n plaat in m’n hoofd van zo’n 48 grondplaten. Maarja…. ideas and actually doing it…. :-)

    (Ministeck heeft overigens ook 1-pins stukkies hoor. Niet minimaal 2.)

  • Hey, dat’s best cool spul! :) En je kan er ook groveren pixels mee maken, voor het Diesel Sweeties effect. Nice :)

    Had je trouwens nog nagedacht over m’n mailtje van laatst?

  • 1 zo’n grondplaatje kost een middag (of avond) om te voltooien, en ik heb er 12 gedaan, dus ja dat duurde wel effe ;)

  • madeddie

    OMG! Tof :) hoe lang ben je er mee bezig geweest?

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