HOWTO – Make Candy Corn “Fondant”
DIY Maven made this tutorial on creating other candies with candy corn, useful for decorating cupcakes, etc. – Link.
Halloween
Animating LED Tophat
Gareth at MAKE points us to this awesome Halloween project: As Hacked Gadgets says, you probably won’t have time to create this amazing LED hat for this Halloween, but if you start soldering now, you might have it done for next Halloween, or if you hurry, next Mardi Gras. The results look worth the effort. […]
Favorite Costumes from the Make/Craft crew: Part 2
I asked the Make and Craft crews to tell me about their favorite Halloween costumes and if they had any special costume plans for this year. You saw the first half yesterday, and here’s the conclusion to the roundup! Rob Sullivan (DIY Halloween): This year my son decided he wanted to be a pimp. He […]
Killer-cool LED hat
As Hacked Gadgets says, you probably won’t have time to create this amazing LED hat for this Halloween, but if you start soldering now, you might have it done for next Halloween, or if you hurry, next Mardi Gras. The results look worth the effort. LED Hat with pac-man, space invaders etc. – [via] Link
Dalek Halloween Pumpkin
Another Dr. Who reference, but this time I got my facts straight before I posted. Evil Mad Scientist has posted a how to for creating your very own robotic Dalek Halloween pumpkin. [via] Link.
A couple more Halloween how-to’s
Cobwebs sent us a couple links on some great Halloween inspired how-to projects. First, you could make yourself a Halloween themed clutch bag: Or if that’s not your style how about a gothic picture frame: Both have complete how-to instructions. Halloween clutch – Link. Goth picture frame – Link. Via Cobwebs at Shadowmanor.
Creepy LED eyes
Craig says: “This pair of glasses has the negative LED lead soldered right to the glasses frame. The frame acts as a ‘negative ground’ as a positive wire is glued inside the frame to the positive leads. The pair of wires is routed out the back, behind my ear and down my shirt to my […]