Boston area Makers, glass pumpkins this weekend @ MIT! – “”The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch came to MIT in 2001 after a residency in the Glass Lab by 14 members of the Bay Area Glass Institute. Visit us this Friday evening to preview the complete installation of 1,000 handblown glass pumpkins, created by artists from […]
Lenore writes – “Halloween is coming right up, so it is time to post one of our favorite costumes to help get everyone in the spirit. This is a darned good looking bat costume you can make from a hoodie and an umbrella. Yes, similar costumes have been made before. Even Martha’s done it. However, […]
Russ Morris has a step-by-step on taking photos through another camera’s viewfinder… he writes – “I created my first contraption from black construction paper using rough measurements taken directly from the Duaflex. I made holes for the lenses and film advance knob to poke through, wrapped the paper channel around the camera body and secured […]
Bill writes “Here’s a build log of our Inflatable Moai project. We converted two Halloween lawn decorations into 9′ Moai for the Tiki Invasion show this past weekend @ the Mission Tiki Drive-in in Montclair, CA.” – Link. Wikipedia – Moai are statues carved from compressed volcanic ash on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The statues […]
Design News has its latest “Gadget freak” how to up, build a fading LED for spooky projects – “Partial to things that go bump in the night, Bill built a circuit that slowly illuminates and fades a pair of red LEDs. It consists of two op amps, one producing a slow rising and falling voltage […]
It’s never to early to start planning for Halloween, Scaryhouse writes – “This is a massive and ever growing list of home haunt, semi-pro haunt, and other Halloween related projects…There really are a lot of haunters out there building great art out of garbage.” Link. Pictured here, our haunted house controller from MAKE volume 03.
Interesting tactic, people were driving too fast in a neighborhood, so the neighborhood built “roadwitches” – “These type of “DIY traffic-calming happenings” are described by their creator as “roadwitches” and have included an 11-feet high rabbit, a big bed (for a sleeping policeman), a Casualty-style fake crash scene for Halloween and the setting up of a living room in the middle of the road.” Link.
