Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers
Last night, I was at the hotel lobby bar trying to wash down the five hour drive to Flushing for this year’s World Maker Faire. Spinning around on my stool I caught sight of a couple of guys doing weird things with rolls of masking tape. They would hold the end of a roll at eye height, jerk their wrist, and let the weight of the roll extend the tape all the way to the floor.
Then they would start twisting and lifting the tape until they’d formed a long tube.
Neat trick, but why? They stood there, making rolls, tearing them off, and handing them out. My friend, DC-area artist Dave Mordini, who came to the show with me, jokingly asked, “Do you also do balloon animals?”
When Dave and I walked into the Faire this afternoon, we realized he does way more than balloon animals. We walked into the main entrance to the NY Hall of Science to see this:
What we were looking at last night…
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