Category: Nerds of Play

  As anyone who cosplays, or is looking into it, knows, it’s not a cheap hobby. Materials, time, supplies, tools – all cost a pretty penny. The tendency to last-minute cosplay is a huge...

If you’ve ever built armor for a cosplay, then you’ve likely had to build a chest plate of some form or another. Although there are multiple ways and materials to build a chest or...

How many of you have hoarded clothes you’ll never actually wear? Toys or trinkets that aren’t particularly useful that you’ve stuffed in a corner somewhere? Well now, it may just be their time to...

So you made an amazing costume and you now want to show it off to let the world bask in its glory, but more than that, you want it to be recognized on a...

Traveling to a new city is always an exciting endeavor. There’s almost an entirely different culture coursing through the veins between buildings, and the same goes for conventions. You will see fandoms in abundance...

If growing up around a tiny home-run costume shop taught me anything, is that an amazing costume doesn’t always need to be made from scratch. Some of the best cosplayers I know buy materials...

      We all have reasons for doing various hobbies. Sometimes it’s because we’ve been trained to do it, sometimes because someone close to us enjoyed it, or maybe simply because we just...

  Whitney the Wonder Wig Woman here! So you’ve got a wig that is unbearably straight and you need to curl it. And it’s heat resistant? Even better! But where to even begin?? Well,...

  Well… this can work for basically any part of the body but this time around we made a head cast, so there. To start off, let us begin with the materials that are...

Introduction and Comparison:     The main subject that I will be discussing in this article is microcontrollers, mainly Arduino for now. What is Arduino, and what is it useful for? Well, the immediate...