CRAFT Instructable group member Honus posted up a clever/simple bat decoration – “I made several of these bats to hang from our trees. They’re really easy to make. You’ll need two different sized styrofoam balls, black tissue paper, five minute epoxy, white glue, some white paint, some wire, a couple of black foamie sheets and […]
Here’s a circuit for making your own flashing color party lights for Halloween (also called a color organ), you can pick up all the parts at RadioShack, assuming your local RadioShack is one of the ones that still has electronic parts… – “The following pictoral diagram illustrates how to wire the elements of a “direct […]
ReadyMade has a simple and easy way to make ghosts using laundry starch, cheese cloth and whatever shapes you have (bottles, lamps, etc.) – Link. Related: MAKE Halloween projects – Link. MAKE Halloween archives – Link. Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests! Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, […]
One of my favorite makers, Todbot is doing a “Spooky Projects” class held at the Machine Project… He writes, – “Yesterday was the first of the four classes that comprise the Spooky Projects – Introduction to Microcontrollers with Arduino. Click that link to read the class notes and see some of the links mentioned.” [via] […]
MAKE pal Rob writes – “Ran across this while looking for something else- it’s from a 1937 Popular Science article on fun with luminous chemistry. Basically, the idea is that one funnel has a solution of luminol and sodium hydroxide in water, and the other funnel has a solution of pottasium ferricyanide and hydrogen peroxide […]
The Haunted Report is a great Halloween site that covers just about everything going on in the Halloween arena – reviews, news, costumes, haunt attractions, etc… They also have an interview series called “Masters of Horror”, their first interview is with Midnight Syndicate “Composer Edward Douglas created Midnight Syndicate in 1996. In 1998, fellow composer […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Mozzwald entered his costume in our contest, it’s TRON! Check it out and how he made it! – “Here’s my Tron costume. It’s not exactly like the original from the movie, but close enough. Spandex shirt and pants for runners. Frisbee for the disc with magnets to hold it onto […]
