Want to read more about the process visit this blog post or this one.

Because a picture says more than a thousand words:

Paperkraft fans will recognise the logo: this is a paper sneaker made for Ron Rementilla from Paperkraft.blogspot.com.
He has written about my PUMA First round papertoy and suggested that people who wanted a template should leave a comment…. And Ron mentioned that he wanted one too…. I’m sure that he didn’t mean this, but I needed to create a skin for this model and thought it would be a nice gesture to thank Ron.

You can download the file for the PUMA – Paperkraft – Urban paper sneaker here:

The .ZIP file contains a .PDF
(You can use freeware like FilZip or 7zip to extract a .ZIP-file and read a .PDF with Acrobat or Foxit)

But I know a lot of people want to customize this PUMA sneaker, so if you are interested in creating a custom paper sneaker you can download the Blank PUMA – States/Suede/Clyde – Urban paper sneaker here:

The .ZIP file contains a .PDF
(You can use freeware like FilZip or 7zip to extract a .ZIP-file and read a .PDF with Acrobat or Foxit)

If you like this, leave a comment. If you build one, show me a picture. If you customize one, … you get the picture ….

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When I finished my first PUMA sneakers, and posted it on NPT (Nice Paper Toy), some people mentioned that they liked the model but that there favorite PUMA sneaker is the states/suede/clyde.
I didn’t know that the PUMA states/suede/clyde is a b-boy classic.

So I couldn’t resist to make them too:

I don’t have a download link for this one, and no design yet….
But that will be fixed very soon.

PS.
The excellent Ron Rementilla from Paperkraft.blogspot.com has written about my PUMA First round papertoy (thx for that).
And suggested that readers who wanted a template, leave a comment….

Till now 10 people did and they have received the (WIP) templates…
I call the templates WIP because the instructions are not ready yet.
And because I wanted to make the PUMA clyde first, they are not ready yet.

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And I don’t want to do something that someone else already did before me. So no urban paper sneaker for me…. Till my girl bought a pair of PUMA sneakers: they are awesome!

So I just googled a little bit about for limited edition PUMA sneaker and it convinced me to do a papertoy PUMA sneaker.

My urban paper PUMA sneaker is loosely based upon PUMA First Round model (check the online shoe customizer: PUMA MONGOLIAN SHOE BBQ)

The blank template:

My own design:

I don’t have the templates ready for publising, so you have to wait for that a little bit.
(or ask leave a comment so I can send what I have now)

I don’t have to mention that the PUMA logo is not mine, right?

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read here the complete (dutch) error message

Stupid, stupid, stupid, I already knew this: Flash cross-domain security.
Which simple says that it’s not allowed to “get” anything from another website unless the server has a crossdomain.xml.
The nasty part is that, while you are testing in Flash IDE nothing goes wrong. So I only bumped into this when I put it on my server…

So what to do?

1. Ask Twitter to change there crossdomain.xml and add my domain…… (is this really an option?)
2. Find something around the crossdomain security from Flash

Luckily solution two is the easiest one: use a proxy to get the data we want.
Because PHP doesn’t have the same restrictions as Flash has we will be using a proxy.php.

This is how it works: Flash wants a crossdomain.xml if you “get” data from another server, but if you “get” data from the same server there is no problem. So we will be asking the proxy.php to “get” the xml/rss and serve it to Flash.

So instead of loading the data directly from Twitter
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/27657030.rss
We will be using the proxy instead
http://yoursite.com/xml_proxy.php?url=http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/27657030.rss

I didn’t write the proxy myself:
The proxy that I used can be found here: http://xmlrpcflash.mattism.com/proxy_info.php (it has some extra explanation about the subject )
This proxy can be use for all sorts of xml, and any server.

As always I’m reinventing the wheel: this group needed a specific solution but is nice to read more about it:
http://woveninteractive.net/2009/02/twitter-in-flash-getting-past-the-securityerrorevent/
They wrote something similar, but a proxy more specific suited for twitter and the use of twitterscript.

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I recently started my own company (eMCeeKay.nl) and I need to make a website for it…. Not really a problem besides that I don’t have any time to create a design.

So I was thinking about a easy way to update this website without spending extra time on that.

Because the main focus of the company is papertoys (urban papertoys), I need design or papertoy related info in my my new website ().

And I came with two ways to update it without extra effort: twitter (I tweet about a lot of stuff but primarily about papertoys) and this the content on this blog (category: urban-papercraft).

I started with the Twitter part.
There are two Twitter AS3 libraries that “speak” to the Twitter API: twitterscript/ and tweetr/.
But after reading the source I concluded that it was a little bit to much: I don’t want to tweet from emceekay.nl or do searches, so that was not the way to go.

A little google search gave me the solution: http://www.theflashlogs.org/flash/displaying-twitter-feeds-in-flash-with-rss/, simple using the standard rss from Twitter (in my case: Matthijs Kamstra – Twitter – rss).

The code on theflashlogs.org is pritty simple, and very easy to use.
So my code is a little addition to that, I need some stuff done to the rss feed:

• remove “MatthijsKamstra:” form the title
• convert @paperkraft to a link
• convert #Mecha6 to a link
• convert http:// to a link

Here is my code:

package nl.emceekay.twttr
{
	import flash.display.MovieClip;
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.net.URLLoader;
	import flash.net.URLRequest;
	import flash.text.TextField;
	/**
	 * // nl.emceekay.twttr.TwttrExample
	 * ...
	 * @author Matthijs Kamstra aka [mck]
	 */
	public class TwttrExample extends MovieClip
	{
		//default: http://twitter.com/matthijskamstra
		private var url:String = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/27657030.rss"; 

		private var _txt:TextField;

		public function TwttrExample()
		{
			stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
			stage.align = "TL";

			// generate textfield
			_txt = new TextField()
			_txt.x = 10;
			_txt.y = 10;
           		 _txt.width = stage.stageWidth - 20;
           		_txt.height =  stage.stageHeight - 20;
			_txt.wordWrap = true;
			_txt.multiline = true;
			_txt.autoSize = "left";
			addChild(_txt);

			// start
			getFeed(url);
		}

		//////////////////////////////////////// loading rss / show rss ////////////////////////////////////////

		private function getFeed (inURL:String) : void
		{
			_txt.htmlText = "getting tweets";

			var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
			loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onFeedHandler);
			loader.load(new URLRequest(inURL));
		}

		private function onFeedHandler (e:Event):void
		{
			_txt.htmlText = "";
			var _feed:XML = new XML(e.target.data);
			var _item:XMLList = _feed.channel.item;
			for each (var feedItem:XML in _item){
				var _title		:String = feedItem.title;
				var _pubDate	:String = feedItem.pubDate;
				var _link		:String = feedItem.link;

				_title = convertTweet(_title);

				_txt.htmlText += _title + "<br><i>" + _pubDate + "</i><br><br>";
			}
		}

		//////////////////////////////////////// twitter specific ////////////////////////////////////////

		// one place to convert the tweet
		private function convertTweet (inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			_str = twttrStripName(_str);
			_str = twttrConvertHTTP(_str);
			_str = twttrConvertMention(_str);
			_str = twttrConvertHashtag(_str);
			_str = twttrConvertSmileys(_str);
			return _str;
		}

		// remove the writers name from the tweet
		private function twttrStripName (inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			var _charNumber:Number = _str.indexOf(":");
			return _str.substr(_charNumber + 2);
		}

		// convert http-strings to links
		private function twttrConvertHTTP(inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			var _array:Array = _str.split(" ");
			for (var i:int = 0; i < _array.length; i++)
			{
				var _str2:String = twttrStripChar(_array[i]);
				if (_array[i].indexOf("http") != -1)
				{
					_array[i] = "<u><a href='" + _str2 + "' target='_blank'>" +_array[i] + "</a></u>";
				}
			}
			return _array.join(" ");
		}

		// convert mentions (@) to links
		private function twttrConvertMention(inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			var _array:Array = _str.split(" ");
			for (var i:int = 0; i < _array.length; i++)
			{
				var _str2:String = twttrStripChar(_array[i]);
				if (_array[i].substr(0, 1) == "@")
				{
					_array[i] = "<u><a href='http://www.twitter.com/" + _str2.split("@")[1] + "' target='_blank'>" +_array[i] + "</a></u>";
				}
			}
			return _array.join(" ");
		}

		// convert hashtags (#) to links
		private function twttrConvertHashtag(inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			var _array:Array = _str.split(" ");
			for (var i:int = 0; i < _array.length; i++)
			{
				var _str2:String = twttrStripChar(_array[i]);
				if (_array[i].substr(0, 1) == "#")
				{
					_array[i] = "<u><a href='http://twitter.com/search?q=%23" + _str2.split("#")[1] + "' target='_blank'>" +_array[i] + "</a></u>";
				}
			}
			return _array.join(" ");
		}		

		// TODO: [mck] convert   to a smiley image
		private function twttrConvertSmileys(inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			return _str;
		}

		// remove "strange" characters from the end of the string
		private function twttrStripChar(inString:String):String
		{
			var _str:String = inString;
			var _charArray:Array = [',', ';', ':', ' ', '-', '_'];
			for (var i:int = 0; i < _charArray.length; i++)
			{
				if (_str.charAt(_str.length - 1) == _charArray[i]) {
					_str = _str.substr(0, _str.length - 1);
				}
			}
			return _str;
		}

	} // end class

} // end package

Currently I have only this proof of concept, but soon I will post the example on emceekay.nl…

Because this is part one of what I want to do, and don’t want to search for every link again, I’m posting also the WordPress link here (it’s just because I’m lazy).

So here the feeds I will be using:

• Matthijs Kamstra – Twitter – rss
• All Urban papercraft posts

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Here is shown a selection of more than 50 paper toys, but of course, there are lot of other different kinds of paper toys out there. Many great designs are left out because of various reasons and I feel really sorry for some of them.

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World War – 3D Animation @ University Of Hertfordshire 2008 from Digital Animation Herts Uni UK on Vimeo.

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I hope you like it, drop a comment if you want… here or at Flickr

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I’ve created NOISSGrunny:

But the Mecha6 are made by a all-star papertoy team: Scott Schaller, Shin Tanaka, Tougui, Castleforte, Marshall Alexander and ME.
The Mecha6 have arrived!!

Here the Nick Knite – MechaBunny slideshow on Flickr (including my custom):

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I hope you like it

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