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6 Ways to Light Up Your Halloween Costume

Your costume doesn’t have to disappear in the dark… it can shine instead with glowing EL wire, LED strips, and NeoPixel rings.

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Porcelain Eyes Turn Tree Stumps into Forest Sentinels

Porcelain Eyes Turn Tree Stumps into Forest Sentinels

Artist duo Dear Human noticed that the the cavities left in old Douglas fir stumps, which were made long ago by the lumberjacks who cut them down, resembled eye sockets. So they just went ahead and made some porcelain eyes to embed in those cavities, turing the ancient stumps into “sentinels of the forest.”

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Honduran High Schooler’s Low-Cost Eye-Controlled Interface

Honduran High Schooler’s Low-Cost Eye-Controlled Interface

Honduran teenager Luis Cruz, whose low-cost homebrew embedded video game system was featured in MAKE Vol 23, wrote in to let us know about his most recent project, a similarly low-cost prototype electrooculography (EOG) system, based on the ATmega328P, that allows people with motor disabilities to write text on a screen using only eye movements.

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