The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
ReadyMade has a simple and easy way to make ghosts using laundry starch, cheese cloth and whatever shapes you have (bottles, lamps, etc.) – 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, […]
Paper Forest, just posted up a whole bunch of Halloween related origami and paper projects… some of them include: Mechanical Bat Witch Pop-up Bat Pop-up Pumpkin Diorama and Witch hat Jack-O-Lantern and Witch Models “Bewitched” Mechanical Witch Tower of Terror, Haunted Mansion, and More! Vintage-style paper masks and More Halloween Box Origami Pumpkin Face Simple […]
One of my favorite makers, Todbot is doing a “Spooky Projects” class held at the Machine Project… He writes, – “Yesterday was the first of the four classes that comprise the Spooky Projects – Introduction to Microcontrollers with Arduino. Click that link to read the class notes and see some of the links mentioned.” [via] […]
MAKE pal Rob writes – “Ran across this while looking for something else- it’s from a 1937 Popular Science article on fun with luminous chemistry. Basically, the idea is that one funnel has a solution of luminol and sodium hydroxide in water, and the other funnel has a solution of pottasium ferricyanide and hydrogen peroxide […]
The Haunted Report is a great Halloween site that covers just about everything going on in the Halloween arena – reviews, news, costumes, haunt attractions, etc… They also have an interview series called “Masters of Horror”, their first interview is with Midnight Syndicate “Composer Edward Douglas created Midnight Syndicate in 1996. In 1998, fellow composer […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Mozzwald entered his costume in our contest, it’s TRON! Check it out and how he made it! – “Here’s my Tron costume. It’s not exactly like the original from the movie, but close enough. Spandex shirt and pants for runners. Frisbee for the disc with magnets to hold it onto […]
Wow, check out these dishwasher safe, silicone, 10 brick LEGO ice cube trays, $7.99. Someone is totally going to make a crazy huge LEGO ice sculpture with these, and we’ll dutifully post it here!… [via] – Link. Related: LEGO projects on MAKE – Link & archives.
