Need to quickly make a distressed sign for your Halloween display, haunted house, or just as decor? In this tutorial, you’ll learn the steps to create your own distressed sign with basic paints and common craft tools. While I chose to do a rusted sign for my Halloween display, this same faux painting technique will […]
Tombstones are a must for any Halloween lover, but store-bought ones always seem a bit underwhelming. With this tutorial and some common materials from your local hardware and craft stores, you can make realistic tombstones that would fool the dead! In this video I’ll cover shaping, carving, texturing, and painting/weathering. Materials you’ll need: -Insulating foam […]
It’s no secret that Halloween is a day that makers love. And, its great to see that childhood passion for trick-or-treating transform into a love of cosplay and costume creation and prop building. So this week and last we reached out to some of our favorite Maker Camp hosts to bring you and your community […]
Tod Kurt has been doing a wonderful series of tutorials to help you learn CircuitPython. Of course, being October, he’s chosen a spooky theme. If you’ve ever wanted to know how to do a 2 axis gimbal, this simple little eyeball project will give you all you need to know, in order to make it […]
Cosplay horns are a right of passage, and here’s how to make some awesome ones
The face detecting features of many platforms have gotten pretty impressive. From snapchat filters to Apples Animojis, we can put all kinds of fantastic effects on our faces in real time. This neat feature was unfortunately locked inside the device, until now. Make: Projects user Lenny3000 shared this project where he’s using the magic computing […]
With Halloween rapidly approaching, many people are looking for relatively simple ways to get big results. This project, from one of our very own Make.co employees, Alicia Williams, shows how you can add an impressive bite to your garage. Using primarily foam board, Alicia and her family cut and then painted the eyes and teeth, […]
