Reuse Cans for Cards
By Poppy Mosbacher. Posted
This article was originally published as part of HackSpace magazine, which has since been incorporated into Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.
In preparation for Valentine’s Day tomorrow, we’ve been cutting these little hearts out of soda cans. It’s surprisingly easy to cut the aluminium and with a vinyl cutter you can create intricate shapes. Instructions are available here.
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For more projects with drinks cans head to issue 20, where Mayank Sharma discovered it’s possible to use them to build a popcorn maker, lampshade and miniature stove. Issue 20 is available as a free download from hackspace.raspberrypi.org/issues/20.
Poppy is a maker and writer. She loves getting tech into the hands of people who do traditional crafts. She is helping set up a makerspace in Devon and was a director of BuildBrighton makerspace.
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