Make: Live‘s Halloween bash featured action stylist Anney Fresh, electrically-enhanced pumpkins aka “hack-o-lanterns”, and a costume parade by attendees at the party hosted by MakerBot in Brooklyn, NY. Matt and Becky open the show with an homage to The X-Files.
Subscribe to the Make: Live Podcast in iTunes, watch Make: Live episode 18 in its entirety (or download in m4v format). Also check out the chat room transcript!
Anney Fresh – Space Kitty and other costume characters
In costume as Mrs. Duchee, designer craftsperson and Emmy award-winning puppeteer Anney Fresh joins us to show and tell with her inflatable Space Kitty and talks shop & about creating and maintaining puppets for Jim Henson company. Some of Anney’s own puppets also join the party.
Pumpkin Hacks
Members of local hackerspace NYC Resistor show off their electrified, motorized, LED-adorned and otherwise hacked pumpkins.
If you’re looking for a little inspiration for a halloween costume, check out what our partygoers were wearing in the costume parade!
Show notes:
- Enter the Make: Projects Halloween Contest
- BoogieBot 5000 robot costume
- Maker Shed deal: check out with code MAKELIVE4 for 20% off the PowerSwitch tail, valid through November 8, 2011
- Headless Marie Antoinette costume on Make: Projects
- Megs & Bacon aka Breakfast of Champions video
- Corinne’s La Catrina makeup/hat video how-to
- Bloody brain shooter and another Bailey’s brains cocktail
- Halloween skull truffles
- Make a meat head
- Canned lychees make great eyeballs, as do pickled onions!
- Safe handling of dry ice
- Canned lychees make great eyeballs, as do pickled onions!
- Digi-Key prizes: Weller Soldering Station, 1 pound of solder, and sweet flashlight, perfect for trick-or-treating.
- Didn’t win the photo challenge? You’re eligible for our second chance giveaway! Go to makezine.com/live to enter to win one of 20 MAKE Halloween Special editions (print for US/Canada, PDF for other international). Drawing ends 11/8/11.
- Thanks to all our guests, MakerBot for hosting us, and to music makers Collin Cunningham for the theme and Kevin MacLeod for the spooky ambient tunes in our X-files intro.
Want to show us your project? Upload a video or photos and send a link to live@makezine.com.
Next show:
Make: Live 20: Kits
Wednesday November 9th, 9pm ET/6pm PT
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