Putting on something unusual that you don’t normally wear makes you feel different, and that’s good. Masks are great for achieving this different feeling. Jacqui has a tutorial for a child’s superhero mask on her blog Hazelnuts. Star-framed eyes: Rad.
t may look like a CG rendering from a big-budget movie, but it’s really just a photograph of Colorodan Anthony Le wearing his $4,000 homemade costume.
[Le] used thin, high-impact urethane for the armor, cutting it into plates and joining them with some 1,500 rivets and washers. He sculpted a clay helmet mold and then used a liquid resin mix to create the final product…He also added a small servo motor that opens the faceplate, as in the movie, and built a gun out of pipes and a motor. LEDs in the eyes and chest-plate further add to the illusion.
Al Linke’s DIY Magic Mirror first appeared on our radar back in 2008, when Al posted a classic Instructable describing the project, which went on to win the Tech Grand Prize in our 2008 DIY Halloween Contest. Al’s Magic Mirror features a Snow-White style floating, talking face in a gilt-framed mirror with an amazingly wide variety number of integrated and integratable functions–breathalyzer, weather forecast, stock tracking, X-10 lighting control, doorbell input with camera feed, Picasa-based slideshow, various themed personalities, etc., etc. He’s selling them, now and gets $219 for the kit.
A clever and inexpensive product from indie laser-cutter Evolution Laser Works.
Jason Lentz shows off his impressive cardboard exoskeleton at Maker Faire. To hear Jason tell it, the arms were the only tricky part to make. There’s more info at the project’s Facebook group and in Jason’s Flickr collection.
A look at the amazing goblin masks from the movie Troll 2.
My preoccupation with bones knows no crafty bounds, so this skeleton bodysuit naturally had me drooling all the way over to the GoodHoodStore. Admittedly, this exact project is one of the primary reasons I own a computerized knitting machine. [via Street Anatomy] More: CRAFT Video: Skeleton Cardigan
