Good hack for controlling your spooky props, or anything that you want “motion sensitive” – “This is a great and inexpensive way to automatically activate haunted effects (pneumatic cylinders, lighting, sound effects, etc.). All you have to do is buy a motion sensor floodlight from your local hardware store for under $20.00 and a couple […]
Hah! MAKE Flickr photo pool member Misogreat made a bear costume complete with cardboard claws (and entered it in the MAKE/CRAFT contest!) – Link. Add your costume photos, just tag’em MAKECRAFTHALLOWEEN Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests! Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending […]
Here’s how to make a cool talking skull from one of those talking Christmas trees – I’m going to try and remind myself to scoop up the severely discounted Christmas stuff after the holidays to do a ton of projects like this for next Halloween… [via] – Link. Related: MAKE Halloween projects – Link. MAKE […]
John writes – “This website shows how to build a bunch of flickering LED circuits that can be used instead of using candles to illuminate your pumpkin this halloween. It has videos of all the different circuits and parts lists and links to schematics. The different circuits fall into a variety of price ranges and […]
This is one from last year, but it’s time to point to it again, the only haunted house I’ve ever seen made from Balloons, Larry writes – “The silly, creepy, funny, weird, slightly haunted castle made _entirely_ out of balloons. In October 2004, this 60,000 balloon, 10,000 square foot, family friendly haunted house was built […]
RavensBlight has a great collection of paper craft projects you can build for Halloween, I really like the mechanical bat (projects can be download/PDF) – “A visit to RavensBlight isn’t really complete without taking home a pet! So here’s BELA, The Amazing Mechanical Bat! Just turn the handle and watch this little creature flap its […]
There’s this old sci-fi movie called Logan’s Run that I’ve always liked, I think it was the costumes, the robots and the blinky things people had stuck to their hands in the 23rd century that really made it interesting, any way – this site is -the- place for all the resources and inspiration needed for […]
