One person who’s taken pumpkin carving to dizzying heights is our pal Ray Villafane. We’ve covered Ray’s work here on numerous occasions. Always looking to teach people the joys of gourd sculpting, Ray graciously gave us five copies of his pumpkin carving DVD to give away here on MAKE.
Who DOESN’T want to yell this message to every young lady out there. Well, the talent and brains behind Emotistyle, Molly Austin and Shamikah Martinez, provide the lecture for us in the most humorous and catchy way…with an original song/rap/music video. Thank you, ladies for encouraging creativity over the “Sexy ____” costume so many girls go for.
Dan Grayber’s mechanisms are autonomous artworks that defy gravity.
This classic project from MAKE alum Mark de Vinck is a great last minute project that will scare the candy out of any unsuspecting trick-or-treater. It’s a relatively simple build that can probably be pieced together with items you have laying in your junk pile or picked with a quick trip to RadioShack and the auto parts store.
DARPA, in collaboration with Boston Dynamics, has created a variety of fascinating robots in the past, including one that can outrun Usain Bolt and another that has a surprisingly human-like gait. Here’s a short clip of DARPA’s Pet-Proto robot accomplishing autonomous decision making and navigation through three obstacles.
Rob Cockerham used SolidWorks to scale up a small model of a Star Wars AT-ST so he could make it into a Halloween costume.
We featured MAKE Flickr pool member kongorilla’s photograph, showing some of the prototypes for this mask, a couple weeks back. As cool as that picture is, it didn’t prepare us for the finished product.
