When Swedish artist Johan Karlgren had children, he started playing around with Perler beads, tiny plastic tubes that come in lots of different colors. They are kind of like physical pixels: you place the beads on a plastic grid of pegs and then heat them with an iron, making the beads fuse together. — Read the rest
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