It must be a seriously contentious election if even the pumpkins are becoming politically charged. Jonah shared some political pumpkins with you last week , and here are a few more: Mccain’s, Obama’s, and the nice, neutral “vote” logos Barack O Lantern: complete with blue LEDs A zombie McCain! Note: neither I nor Make Magazine […]
The Purl Bee shares a pattern for making this insanely cute knitted witch doll. I love her wiry platinum-blonde pigtails!
This isn’t a world of difference from the other animatronics projects out there, but there are 2 reasons this animatronic rat Instructable stands out for me: 1. An excellent quote from the creator: “Last year I was just a naked rat on top of a trash can, but this year I got to dress up.” […]
Here are some impressive duct tape skills at work: Via Gizmodo, where a commenter coined the excellent term Duct Knight:) And, as an added bonus, you have a “lucha libre” mask halfway through the build: It seems like you could have a pretty impressive halloween just with duct tape. Check out these other tape-based projects: […]
Rodger’s R/C ghost-bot might be the coolest thing I could imagine running into on Halloween night – I have re-used my electric-wheelchair hack technology and applied it my ever-morphing holiday bots. Today’s submission – Donna the Dead – “one mad bride that goes for a ride”. Using “low-tech” Home Depot pipe technology (tie-wrapped to her […]
Al sent us a link to his amazing “Magic Mirror” project. He used and Arduino and a bunch of hidden sensors to control a Flashed based video. Check out the instructable for all the cool things it does. [Thanks Al!] After multiple trips to Disneyland, I got the idea to do a Snow White type […]
The “Interactive Mirror” is an interesting research project that combines a mirror with a touchscreen interface to produce a novel way of interacting with your own image. Think “Minority Report” meets “Multi-Touch” mixed with a bit of fairy tale like interaction. This would probably be perfect for a halloween spook house. Interactive Mirror
