Over a period of 6 months, Instructables member skeplin gathered up a whole crapload of caps and made himself a giant Princess Peach mosaic with all of them. By taking each cap and handpainting it with one of 16 colors, then arranging them into a 28×35 grid, he created this pixelated masterwork to hang on his wall. He used a little bit of Perl and ImageMagick to figure out the colors from Peach’s original image, then used that data to build his pixel map. But why talk about it, when you can see how he did it?

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Etsy artist BottleCapArt turns discarded beer bottle caps into pixel art. Each creation is handmade from bottlecaps, paint, pine, and tons of hot glue. My fingers hurt just thinking about the burns the artist must have endured pressing metal into scalding hot glue over and over again. Yeouch!

Looks like somebody likes Bud Light and Michelob a whole lot. If you’d like to hang these up on your wall, bottle cap Mario is available for $100 (USD), while the blue ghost is $40 bucks over on Etsy. Sure, you may say that’s alot of money for a bunch of bottle caps, but think about how many beers you’d have to down – and then all the painful labor to hot glue them to the boards, and you’ll appreciate all the hard work that must have gone into these quirky creations.