Incredibly creepy photoreactive animatronic, um, thing
and has seven servos and several vacuum-formed pops. The rest is “plywood, paper clips, and popsicle sticks.” [Thanks, Matt!]
Halloween
Chocolate Human Skulls
These chocolate skulls are made in molds cast from real human skulls. Available in your choice of chocolates, including “bone chocolate,” “delicious blend of Belgian milk and white chocolates, resembling the colour of freshly cleaned human bones.” [via Neatorama]
Great online haunt resource
If you’re still looking for ideas for this (or next) year’s Halloween display, check out HauntProject.com. They’ve done a great job of assembling cool Halloween projects from all over the web and have nearly 1,000 indexed and categorized as of this writing. Shown here are three of my faves so far. Above, a sweet crashed flying saucer prop by Scott Rossi. Below, a motorized monster-in-a-box by Bob and Cindy Stewart.
A Better Way to Slice a Pumpkin
A clever modification to the traditional way of cutting an opening in a pumpkin.
Headless Marie Antoinette Costume
Make our Headless Marie Antoinette Costume from Nicole Magne on Etsy’s The Storque. This creepy cool project was featured in our special MAKE Halloween issue is available now in the Maker Shed.
Threadbanger’s Roundup of Knit and Crochet Halloween Costumes
If you have nimble fingers, you should be able to whip up one of these knit or crochet masks in time for Halloween. Lee Meredith at Threadbanger has gathered up the coolest and weirdest knit and crochet costumes for the season.
Octoplex polychromic LED pumpkin display
The boys from MaceTech cooked up an impressive yard display with eight RGB LED modules in eight different pumpkins around the yard. Garrett explains:
We made a control board for eight pumpkins, using eight ShiftBars, 50mm cables, a Seeeduino, a ShiftBrite Shield, and a 12V power supply. The ShiftBar potentiometers were adjusted to deliver about 100mA to each of the 24 LED channels. We wired the LED array boards to the control board using cheap 4-wire telephone station cable from Home Depot.
Read more about it here.
