It’s that time of year again folks! Your and my favorite maker holiday is nearly here: Halloween! I’m certain many of you have already started fabricating your ingenious costumes, fantastic props and devilishly delectable edibles.
Tony Regalbuto’s father has a penchant for decorating the family’s front yard with whimsical, sometimes frightening, humanoid decorations. Many of the characters are based around Posables, a system of configurable mannequins demonstrated at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. These seem to be the perfect template for creating scary (animatronic?) ghouls, monsters, and goblins for this Halloween season.
Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! We’re having a Halloween party at MakerBot and we’ll share the best DIY Halloween projects with you live from the festivities.
Jessica from How About Orange came up with a brilliant and inexpensive way to create some bold Halloween decor. In a burst of festivity, I decided we should have some Halloween decorations in the house. Something 1) dramatic, 2) super cheap, and 3) didn’t require me to go to the store. Behold: trash bag spiderwebs. […]
Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! We’re having a Halloween party at MakerBot and we’ll share the best DIY Halloween projects with you live from the festivities.
Youtube user darkbluedrew made this doggy tank costume, which apparently won a costume competition! The dog is well rewarded with treats. I have since fixed a part of the back of the tank that was hitting his leg. The gun handle trigger controls the lights and sound. [via Buzzfeed]
Matt @ MAKE writes: Candy Corn is a long-time staple of Halloween candy. In fact, the sweet treat has been around since the 1880s. In the video above, The Harvard Crimson tests a recipe from The Field Guide to Candy by Anita Chu. Watch to learn how to whip up your own batch of kernels […]
