OK makers, we have been pouring over thousands of photos and entries you sent in for the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contest, and we’re pleased to announced the winners! First, thank you so much for being part of this with MAKE & CRAFT. We never expected the response! Halloween is the maker holiday, and we’ll […]
Here’s a simple how-to on adding some blinking lights to any old laptop bag, for this example I use my childhood companion, a 2-XL 8-track “robot” toy and a 555 chip… This is the original 2XL head, pulled from the robot toycorpse. We tested out the LEDs with a benchtop power supply. The LEDs were […]
It seems like this just might be the year of do-it-yourself (DIY) Halloween, over 200+ projects and 600+ photos were sent in to the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contest… here are just a few that came in while the ghosts were sleeping… Jody’s Mr. Potato head – Link. Dave is a Nintendo controller – Link. […]
There’s still plenty of time to enter the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contests but here’s a quick look at just *some* of DIY, hacked, modded, geeked out Halloween fun Makers around have scared up! There are about 500 and counting, they’re not just pictures either, many are complete how-tos! … It’s frighteningly awesome! Costumes Homemade […]
Bill Tennant took a good idea and made it better. Who wants to shoot potatoes on Halloween when there’s candy to be had? Interview by Arwen O’Reilly, Staff Editor.Arwen: How did you come up with the idea for a candy cannon? Bill: In my workplace if you can believe it, my co-workers had a spud […]
Steve Anderson (a.k.a. Irregular Shed) has a lovely set of instructions for carving melons this Halloween. And he’s got a point: why stick with boring old pumpkins when melons are easier to carve and the insides make such great eyeballs, too?… – Interview by Arwen O’Reilly, Staff Editor.Arwen: How would you describe yourself? Steve: I […]
The perfect example of “cool doesn’t have to be complicated,” Chaintool’s robot costume made out of old Clorox bottles rocked the Southwest last year. Made out of “laundry detergent bottles, crutches, and football shoulder pads,” it looks more like an early Star Wars prototype. Chaintool talks about his favorite tools (of course!), the importance of […]
