How-To: Compressed air system for haunt props
Good tutorial on putting together a pneumatic power system for “home imagineering,” as as the folks at Phantasmechanics call it. We’ve blogged their stuff a couple times before.
Halloween
How-To: Giger Alien costume with motorized extensible tongue
From Creatrope. The mechanism of the tongue is made from Lego elements.
Incredibly creepy photoreactive animatronic, um, thing
and has seven servos and several vacuum-formed pops. The rest is “plywood, paper clips, and popsicle sticks.” [Thanks, Matt!]
Chocolate Human Skulls
These chocolate skulls are made in molds cast from real human skulls. Available in your choice of chocolates, including “bone chocolate,” “delicious blend of Belgian milk and white chocolates, resembling the colour of freshly cleaned human bones.” [via Neatorama]
Great online haunt resource
If you’re still looking for ideas for this (or next) year’s Halloween display, check out HauntProject.com. They’ve done a great job of assembling cool Halloween projects from all over the web and have nearly 1,000 indexed and categorized as of this writing. Shown here are three of my faves so far. Above, a sweet crashed flying saucer prop by Scott Rossi. Below, a motorized monster-in-a-box by Bob and Cindy Stewart.
A Better Way to Slice a Pumpkin
A clever modification to the traditional way of cutting an opening in a pumpkin.
Headless Marie Antoinette Costume
Make our Headless Marie Antoinette Costume from Nicole Magne on Etsy’s The Storque. This creepy cool project was featured in our special MAKE Halloween issue is available now in the Maker Shed.