Amazing robot costume with an Arduino, MAKE Game of life kit and WaveShield! jerrya writes… My wife and I are making a robot Halloween costume and I just finished the electronics design prototype. I wanted to wait until the costume was finished before revealing it but I’m too excited that I finished my circuit and […]
Gareth @ MAKE writes: Eric Testroete, a 3D character artist from Vancouver, sent us this awesome self-portrait costume, an homage to Big Head Mode in videogames. More photos at Eric’s Flickr.
Pretty amazing costume build tutorial from Instrucables user Incrxtc.
It has LED health and mana bars, LED magic power in the gloves, and an LED, er, “touch-sensitive fairy companion.” There’s one Arduino for the gloves and status bars, and another for the companion.
OK, my awesome meter has kind of overloaded on this one. Everett Bradford’s “Prometheus Device” is a hand-mounted appliance that shoots, like, real fire. It looks, you know, dangerous, and all, but it’s so cool I don’t really care. And he’s done a great job documenting the build, although obviously no one should attempt this who doesn’t know what they’re doing. Amazing work, Everett. Thanks!
Two aliens contained in suspended animation chambers. A central control unit monitors and sustains life support functions. The control screen is a looping flash animation. Every few minutes, a malfunction state is triggered. Sound and graphics announce the error, and a Make Controller board is used to trigger emergency flasher lights and a fog machine (simulates a cryogenic coolant leak).
A tutorial on how to build a prop replica of one of those District 9 guns that makes intelligent, loving, civilized creatures explode with a nauseating SPLAT. I want one!
