Swap-O-Rama-Rama (photos!)
The MAKE & CRAFT team would like to thank the organizers of Swap-O-Rama-Rama and everyone who stopped by at our CRAFT table – we had a lot of fun the event was fantastic! Check out some of our photos here! – Link.
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The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
HOW TO – Make vampire bat decorations
CRAFT Instructable group member Honus posted up a clever/simple bat decoration – “I made several of these bats to hang from our trees. They’re really easy to make. You’ll need two different sized styrofoam balls, black tissue paper, five minute epoxy, white glue, some white paint, some wire, a couple of black foamie sheets and […]
DIY Circuit – 1-Channel Light Organ for 12V Bulbs
Here’s a circuit for making your own flashing color party lights for Halloween (also called a color organ), you can pick up all the parts at RadioShack, assuming your local RadioShack is one of the ones that still has electronic parts… – “The following pictoral diagram illustrates how to wire the elements of a “direct […]
DIY Ghosts
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, […]
Halloween papercraft projects…
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 […]
Spooky Projects – Introduction to microcontrollers with Aurdino
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] […]
Fun with luminous chemistry
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 […]