Russ Morris has a step-by-step on taking photos through another camera’s viewfinder… he writes – “I created my first contraption from black construction paper using rough measurements taken directly from the Duaflex. I made holes for the lenses and film advance knob to poke through, wrapped the paper channel around the camera body and secured […]
Bill writes “Here’s a build log of our Inflatable Moai project. We converted two Halloween lawn decorations into 9′ Moai for the Tiki Invasion show this past weekend @ the Mission Tiki Drive-in in Montclair, CA.” – Link. Wikipedia – Moai are statues carved from compressed volcanic ash on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The statues […]
Design News has its latest “Gadget freak” how to up, build a fading LED for spooky projects – “Partial to things that go bump in the night, Bill built a circuit that slowly illuminates and fades a pair of red LEDs. It consists of two op amps, one producing a slow rising and falling voltage […]
It’s never to early to start planning for Halloween, Scaryhouse writes – “This is a massive and ever growing list of home haunt, semi-pro haunt, and other Halloween related projects…There really are a lot of haunters out there building great art out of garbage.” Link. Pictured here, our haunted house controller from MAKE volume 03.
Interesting tactic, people were driving too fast in a neighborhood, so the neighborhood built “roadwitches” – “These type of “DIY traffic-calming happenings” are described by their creator as “roadwitches” and have included an 11-feet high rabbit, a big bed (for a sleeping policeman), a Casualty-style fake crash scene for Halloween and the setting up of a living room in the middle of the road.” Link.
Great holiday Instructable! “Use solid-state relays to blink the lights on your tree in time with music. String lots of lights onto the tree. Use as many sets as you like, but arrange them such that there are three light regions, each with a separate plug. Run these three plugs down the trunk so they can easily be attached to the light controller. Up to three strings of lights can usually be linked in series, so you can almost certainly cover even big trees. Plug light strings into the controller you built for Halloween (MAKE 03). Attach computer and sound system…” Link.
Jamie writes “We had another Halloween party at the Casa this year, and somehow a flash of inspiration hit me when I was thinking about decorations: polystyrene foam balls painted like jack-o-lanterns, on christmas lights.” Link.
