How-To: Snowflake Pumpkins
I love the clever way Merrilee of mer mag created these charming paper Jack-O-Lanterns. She’s cut them out paper snowflake-style to create symmetrical, fun faces! See her blog for all the steps.
Halloween
Flashback: Playable Pac-Man Costume
For an 80s-themed Halloween party, I wanted a costume that was unique, incorporated technology, and would be fun for fellow partygoers. I’d been toying with the idea of making a mini arcade machine for my game room, so I decided to come up with one that I could also wear as my costume. What follows is a guide to making your own wearable Pac-Man that guarantees you’ll be the life of the costume party. It’s fun to build and to wear. And I’ve since converted it to a bar-top arcade machine, so this costume can play long after the Halloween parties are over.
Pepakura-cast Halo helmet
YouTuber utubewarrenj is part of a community of cosplayers that are using a pretty amazing low-tech process to go from digital models to relatively accurate, durable real-world objects. Basically, they print out, fold up, and tape together elaborate paper models (for an idea of how much work this is, check out this video by SeamusRocks99), then fiberglass over and/or cast liquid polymer resin into them to produce durable full-size artifacts, which is what he’s showing here.
Free sample chips available from Microchip Technology
The sponsors of this year’s Halloween contest are giving away microchips! To score some, go here, register, then choose the product line and device family you’re interested in and click on the orange icons to order free samples. From their press release:
Hey Makers in the United States, UK, Germany, France and Italy… We have the exclusive on some great news from Microchip! Beginning Friday, October 2, you will be able to get free microcontroller, analog and memory samples from http://www.microchip.com/samples/. That’s right, you don’t even have to pay for shipping and handling! This is a great opportunity to get some parts for your embedded microcontroller project in the Make: Halloween Contest 2009.
Flashback: Diabolical Horns
October is a mere two days away, signifying the approach of my favorite crafty holiday, Halloween. Back in August of 2007, CRAFT and our sister publication MAKE teamed up to produce a special Halloween edition packed with DIYs covering everything from costumes to makeup to haunted house props and house decor. This week’s flashback is […]
How-To: Make a Proponomicon
There are two tutorials here describing the construction of a Raimi-style Necronomicon prop. The original, by Instructables user onespartan, is pictured above, and a derivative work by Raolin, is pictured below. Nice work, both of you!
Buy wholesale Cthulhu and save
I just checked the freezer and discovered I was down to my last bag. Don’t let Halloween sneak up on you without stocking up.
