6 Ways to Light Up Your Halloween Costume
Your costume doesn’t have to disappear in the dark… it can shine instead with glowing EL wire, LED strips, and NeoPixel rings.
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Porcelain Eyes Turn Tree Stumps into Forest Sentinels
Artist duo Dear Human noticed that the the cavities left in old Douglas fir stumps, which were made long ago by the lumberjacks who cut them down, resembled eye sockets. So they just went ahead and made some porcelain eyes to embed in those cavities, turing the ancient stumps into “sentinels of the forest.”
Honduran High Schooler’s Low-Cost Eye-Controlled Interface
Honduran teenager Luis Cruz, whose low-cost homebrew embedded video game system was featured in MAKE Vol 23, wrote in to let us know about his most recent project, a similarly low-cost prototype electrooculography (EOG) system, based on the ATmega328P, that allows people with motor disabilities to write text on a screen using only eye movements.
Spooky, geeky Halloween eyes!
Matt Daughtrey did this terrifyingly cute Halloween project using his LMDriver platform – he’s created disembodied floating eyes that look around and blink. You can find information about it here.
Poke an eye out?
I’m sure I owe my fascination with glass eyes to my grandfather, who lost an eye when he worked on the railroads and had a glass replacement. His visits meant nervously brushing my teeth while keeping my eye on his, staring out at me from its glass of water on the bathroom counter. I found […]
