I am not going to ramble on again about how I didn’t make anything this year for Halloween. I’m over that thanks to my new friend,Robot Zombie Cat. However, I thought I would do a quick recap of my previous Halloween-inspired builds that I actually completed!
The neatest part about this, er, “Pie of Sauron” pumpkin build by AnubisTTP is the vintage Soviet ‘dekatron’ counting tube that burns at its pupil. It’s also got LED backlighting inside. And I couldn’t resist posting this little dekatron animated .gif from the Wikipedia article:
Heather Bailey has created a free pattern for this cute bat doll that’s made from a sock, wool felt and scraps of fabric.
I had these grand plans of completing my levitating baby head, I even started about a month ago, but even with such an early start, there just doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day. Enter Robot Zombie Cat!
Instructables user craineum made these really incredible Yoshi and Mario costumes for his toddlers. You may remember him from last year’s Mega Man costume. Those are lucky kids! I remember one year being Tweety Bird, and my mom made a similarly large mascot-style piece of headgear. Who needs peripheral vision when you’ve got candy? More: […]
Good tutorial on putting together a pneumatic power system for “home imagineering,” as as the folks at Phantasmechanics call it. We’ve blogged their stuff a couple times before.
From Creatrope. The mechanism of the tongue is made from Lego elements.
