Cool video from the folks at MonkeyBasic.com who are selling an add-on to Brookshire’s Visual Show Automation (VSA) package. The software is tracking the head movements of an operator wearing a special IR-active headpiece, and translating them into real-time motions of an animatronic skull.
This video by YouTuber electricunicycle, while dark, shows off a pretty sweet haunt prop he made by attaching a frame, fabric, and lighting to an electric wheelchair base he adapted for radio control.
Cobwebs of The Art of Darkness shows how to turn a tiny plastic skeleton into a mummified pixie for Halloween purposes or for hoaxing gullible Britons. She calls it a “doom it yourself” project.
This phototutorial from central Florida is actually called “Flamingos with frickin laser beams,” which was a pretty hard title to resist. However, it looks to me like there are, in fact, only LEDs involved here, and Make: Online readers are sensitive to such distinctions. [Thanks, Shawn!]
Propnomicon has an ongoing project to assemble a set of props from the fictional Miskatonic University expedition to Antarctica from Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness.
A plastic skull and ribcage, a stick, and some old curtains dunked in gray house paint. From Dave Lowe Design.
Cartographer’s Guild is a thriving online community for folks who are interested in making maps of places that do not exist. There are some really beautiful graphics to be found, particularly, in their Cartographer’s Choice forum. Shown at the top of the post is Sapiento’s Post Apocalyptic Amerika, and immediately above is töff’s Map of Ceres: 16th Millenium.
