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Choreograph a Music and Light Display for the Holiday
Trick-or-treaters are bound to get a thrill when you make this choreographed music and light display that plays each time your gate is opened.

Learn Plastic Welding with Giant Inflatable Tentacles
This project will explain how to weld plastic to make these giant inflatable tentacles.

Sculpt Demon Horns from Foam and Paper Towels
These DIY horns are lightweight, flexible, and easily modified for your Halloween costume or cosplay.

Tailed Poi
Design and sew your very own set of poi for dancing, spinning, and twirling.

Finished French Cleat System
Easily add a French cleats storage system to your workshop to organize tools of any shape or size.

Scare Trick or Treaters with an Animatronic Skull Candy Jar
This animatronic skull is a perfect Halloween project. It detects when you approach and responds with sound, movement, and animated LED eyes.

Use Arduino to Avoid Frozen Plumbing This Winter
In this project, Jason Poel Smith shows you how to make a system that will monitor the temperature of your pipes and alert you if they get near freezing.

Projection Mapping with Laser Cats
Create projection mapping special effects like the ones seen in art and advertisements, with moving video superimposed on a structure.

Hinge Sky Tracker for Astrophotography
This sky tracking platform matches the eath's rotation in the simplest way possible. A basic regulator circuit powers a DC gear-head motor, which turns a pair of gears that engage a curved length of threaded rod, and makes the hinge open at the correct speed. You can build it in a weekend about $75 or less.

Create a 10-Foot-Tall Fire Tornado
With a few household items, you can build a firenado that will put smaller fires and tornadoes to shame.

Control Halloween Effects with DIY Infrared Remote Controls
In this project, I'll show you how to set up some simple infrared remote controls for effects that you can use in your haunted house this year.

How to Design Custom Game Tokens with OpenSCAD
Learn how to create a simple custom model for a coin or gaming token in OpenSCAD.