You knew it was coming… – “Haloween… A time for celebration, a time for family… but also a time for BATTLE and HONOUR! Even in the simple act of carving the holiday pumpkin, a true WARRIOR can hone his skills with the Bat’leth! Unfortunately, as human pumpkins are so small we will content ourselves with […]
Here’s how to make a fan a little more exciting by adding LEDs and some old floppy drive guts, Svo writes – “Prerequisites: 1 floppy drive, defunct; 6 leds, preferrably different colours; a short length of thin wire; a short length of thicker wire; some drilling and soldering skills…It involves carefully ripping the windings and […]
Here are 5 different ways to make your own fake blood for whatever Halloween project you happen to be working that requires blood… – 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, […]
Matthew Westcott has a rad hack for Podzilla, he writes – “For those who don’t know, the ZX Spectrum was a 1980s home computer (very popular in the UK) for which software was commonly distributed on ordinary audio cassettes. These would contain several minutes of modem-like beeps and squeals that would assemble themselves into programs […]
Here are two pumpkin computers and they were made – [via] – Here’s a PC – and here’s a Mac (1990 Mac Classic, nice). 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, anywhere […]
You still have over a week to make an LED pumpkin. Go check out the Weekend Projects Podcast: Make A Programmable LED Pumpkin and then download the pdf instructions and you’re good to go. To make it easy, subscribe in itunes and have the video and the pdf instructions downloaded automatically for you!
The recent Paris fashion shows got a dose of fashion technology with some of the animatronic-controlled dresses that floated down the runway. Five dresses in all had computerized underpinnings in the bust and skirt. From the MIT Technology Review, “Wires within the tubes connect to motors at the bottom of the dress. The motors reel […]
