Papercraft, noun: Paper models constructed mainly from sheets of heavy paper, paperboard, or card stock. – Wikipedia.
In the past, I’ve talked about how you can email print requests from anywhere (that’s pretty awesome), but as I was exploring the apps that you can download into the printer itself, I found a funky collection of papercraft projects. The templates come from the site, Cubecraft.com. All you need to do (after installing the app on your printer) is select the model that you want to put together. I chose “Monkey.”
But that was just the start. I was like a paper-holic, jonesing for more oddball things to assemble. So, follow along for some nerdly bits of papercraft that you can print up and put together in your spare time.
Cubecraft’s collection of crazy popculture papercraft.
There is some seriously super-nerdy stuff in this collection. I’m talking tons of cartoon characters (Thundercats, HO!), videogame staples (Mario, Gordon Freeman) and TV favorites (Dr. Who, anyone?) – to name a few.
A walk through the Papercraft Museum
This is a MASSIVE repository of complex – and nerdy – papercraft projects. I just downloaded a 22MB file just for the directions and assets to put together a character from Mass Effect 2. Honestly, just click through and appreciate what’s there. Because some of this stuff I don’t know if I’d be able to put together myself.
50 Awesome Papercraft Robots
There a couple interesting one-off projects among the 50 papercraft robots in this collection at botropolis, but dig through this list and you’re going to find some awesome DIY assembly projects – like ED-209 from Robocop…or maybe your own mecha-Godzilla.
A buddy of mine, (@loonyboi), turned me onto this one. And, I have to say that he's dead on the money. This site hosts a great collection of super nerdy things to assemble (for instance: Buck Rogers' Twiki, and arcade game cabinet and more) as well as a couple goofy things that just had me cracking up. You wanna see more? Head over there -- and thank Jason! 
OH, yeah, and the title of this story was a little intentional as well. I was wondering if some designs straight out of Muskatonic University were available for some cardboard Cthulhu action. The answer: Yep.
I found some Cthulhu-crazed papercraft projects online….a couple of them are right here:
http://www.onemonk.com/downloads
http://grimreviews.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-hp-lo
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vtj7vl9wBzM/SQd-oBkzvBI/
How about you? Have you come across any crazy online crafts that you’d try doing with a printer? Got any other cool papercraft places you’d recommend checking out?
