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October 23, 2006
Scary dolls want to cuddle with you
MAKE & CRAFT photo pool member Karenwoodiel makes really cute dolls and by cute we mean creepy scary ones perfectly suited for the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contest, thanks Karen! - Link.
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Oct 23, 2006 06:10 AM
Crafts, Halloween, Holiday projects |
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iGlow - Glowing hair gel
Hmm, I'm going to order this glowing hair gel or find some to test out, anyone try this out yet? Could be fun for other non-Halloween stuff too... (Outdoor glowing art, etc...) - "Just likeVoltage, iGlow does not rely on UV, neon or black lights to create glow. Instead, it produces its own light! Tiny, microscopic particles in the gel come together in the mixing process to produce a bright colorful glow that can be seen in partial light and in the dark for several hours. While iGlow is classified as a "temporary hair color" it does not actually color the hair cuticle. It "coats" the hair with color. The gel is the delivery medium for the luminescence (glow). As such it is safe for color-treated or bleached hair when used as directed." [via] - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 23, 2006 05:59 AM
Halloween, Holiday projects |
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HOW TO - Klingon pumpkin
You knew it was coming... - "Haloween... A time for celebration, a time for family... but also a time for BATTLE and HONOUR! Even in the simple act of carving the holiday pumpkin, a true WARRIOR can hone his skills with the Bat'leth! Unfortunately, as human pumpkins are so small we will content ourselves with the more delicate klingon weapon - the daq tahg." - Link.
Related:
- Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, you can enter all or just some of the contests - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 23, 2006 04:36 AM
DIY Projects, Halloween, Holiday projects |
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Fan modding with LEDs
Here's how to make a fan a little more exciting by adding LEDs and some old floppy drive guts, Svo writes - "Prerequisites: 1 floppy drive, defunct; 6 leds, preferrably different colours; a short length of thin wire; a short length of thicker wire; some drilling and soldering skills...It involves carefully ripping the windings and rotor out of 3.5" floppy drive, drilling some holes in the nut holding the propeller and screwing the stator of the original motor to the nut... soldering 3 groups of leds biased in reverse to each other, to make them shine from current going in both directions. I used 2 smd leds too, they are actually pretty easy to solder to eachother. It's hard to explain the connections without the picture.. Basically if you draw a star of 3 motor windings, then draw a triangle connecting its ends, the leds will be in the edges of that triangle." [via] - Link.
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Oct 23, 2006 03:33 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Fake blood recipes
Here are 5 different ways to make your own fake blood for whatever Halloween project you happen to be working that requires blood... - Link.
Related:
- Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, you can enter all or just some of the contests - Link.
Anything can happen on Halloween...
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 23, 2006 02:32 AM
Halloween, Holiday projects |
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October 22, 2006
Linux On iPod - TZX (ZX Spectrum cassette image) support
Matthew Westcott has a rad hack for Podzilla, he writes - "For those who don't know, the ZX Spectrum was a 1980s home computer (very popular in the UK) for which software was commonly distributed on ordinary audio cassettes. These would contain several minutes of modem-like beeps and squeals that would assemble themselves into programs when played into the computer.
TZX is a file format for storing virtual images of these tapes, primarily for use with emulators - World Of Spectrum has thousands of them available for download. You could think of them as highly specialised, compressed audio files (typically under 50K for a complete Spectrum game) - and that's exactly what this Podzilla patch does. It adds .tzx as another audio file format playable from the file browser. (The code is heavily derived from the existing WAV playback code.)
So, in short, you can now hook up your iPod to your Spectrum, just as you would hook up a cassette recorder, and load games from it. One iPod will comfortably hold every Spectrum game ever published. Neat huh?
Unfortunately it isn't really tested yet - still waiting for 4g audio support for that - and while my desktop build successfully produces output that sounds like Spectrum loading data, I haven't actually tried hooking it up yet. Also, it doesn't currently support all the obscure features of the .tzx format.
All in all, I suspect it's a bit obscure to become a core Podzilla feature, but I hope someone will find it useful!" [via] - Link.
Related:
iPod Linux how-tos, hacks, projects and more @ MAKE - Link.
From the pages of MAKE:
- Mod Your Pod - Enhance your iPod with a Linux upgrade. MAKE 02 - Page 135. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition!
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 22, 2006 06:00 PM
Retro, iPod |
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Pumpkin computers!
Here are two pumpkin computers and they were made - [via] - Here's a PC - and here's a Mac (1990 Mac Classic, nice).
Related:
- Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, you can enter all or just some of the contests - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 22, 2006 03:45 PM
Computers, DIY Projects, Halloween, Holiday projects |
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Weekend Projects in itunes - Make an LED Pumpkin
You still have over a week to make an LED pumpkin. Go check out the Weekend Projects Podcast: Make A Programmable LED Pumpkin and then download the pdf instructions and you're good to go.
To make it easy, subscribe in itunes and have the video and the pdf instructions downloaded automatically for you!
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Oct 22, 2006 03:31 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, MAKE Podcast, Podcasting, Weekend Projects |
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Artist bakes edible bread 'body parts'
Ok, this one goes perfectly with all the weird Halloween cakes and edible scary stuff... Body parts made from bread - "Along with edible human heads crafted from dough, chocolate, raisins and cashews, Kittiwat makes human arms, feet, and chicken and pig parts. He uses anatomy books and his vivid memories of visiting a forensics museum to create the human parts. "When people see the bread, they don't want to eat it. But when they taste it, it's just normal bread," he said. "The lesson is 'don't judge just by outer appearances." [via] - Link & older article.
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Oct 22, 2006 11:44 AM
Arts, Halloween, Holiday projects, Made On Earth |
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HOW TO - Build a coffin (Halloween prop or bookcase)
Here are the plans and how-to for building a coffin, makes a good Halloween prop - then finish it off and make a creepy cool bookshelf! - Link.
Related:
- A Short History of Security Coffins - Link.
- HOW TO - Cheap motion activated coffin - Link.
- DIY IKEA Coffin - Link.
- Homemade fantasy coffins from Ghana - Link.
MAKE Halloween!:
- Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, you can enter all or just some of the contests - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 22, 2006 09:41 AM
DIY Projects, Holiday projects, Home Entertainment |
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Bent wire miniature working bicycles
Mr. Ma makes these little miniature working bicycles from copper wire and sold them on the streets of Shanghai for over 20 years, this store now sells them and has also has an interview... - "Seventy-four-year-old former electrician Mr. Ma began creating intricate model bicycles out of copper wire after he retired nearly two decades ago. Until now, his unique works of art--which fit in the palm of your hand--were available only on the streets of Shanghai. Mudan Boutique is happy to introduce these distinctive gift items to the rest of the world.
Why bicycles? For Ma, the decision was easy. "China is the kingdom of bicycles," he said. And the copper wire and plastic tubing were materials he used during his days as an electrician. Ma spends around 10 hours a day making and selling his miniature marvels and his attention to detail is obvious--turning the pedals really makes the rear wheels go around!" [via] - Link & interview with the maker.
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Oct 22, 2006 06:37 AM
Arts, Made On Earth |
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Lamellaphone - made from TV electronics
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Yapruder writes - "[Here's a] Lamellaphone using lozenge tin and tines made by trimming a small metal comb from interior electronics of a television set." - Link.
Related DIY musical instruments:
- Altoid tin pocket thumb piano - Link.
- FolkUrban Music - DIY instruments - Link.
- Weird DIY Instruments - Les Luthiers - Link.
- More DIY Musical Instruments: PVC Recorder - Link.
- Make your own musical instruments - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 22, 2006 03:35 AM
Altoids and tin cases, DIY Projects, Music |
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iLights - iMac speaker lights
Looking for something to do with old/broken iMac speakers? Do what Wayne did "Tear out all the guts. Stuff them with miniature christmas lights and let them hang - Link.
Related iMacery:
- iMac MAME cabinet - Link.
- Steam powered iMac - Link.
- DIY PC "iMac" - Link.
- Running the Tablet PC OS on an iMac - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 22, 2006 12:34 AM
Computers, DIY Projects, Music |
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Dick Cheney-O-Lantern
Bill Z Bubb entered this pumpkin in the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contest! - Link.
Enter yours! Hack-o-Lantern contest: Decorate a pumpkin in any way you see fit, or unfit. It's that easy. Then upload your photos to the MAKE or CRAFT Flickr photo pool and tag them "MAKECRAFTHALLOWEEN" Or you can email them to us, just be aware that we're going to upload them to the MAKE and CRAFT Flickr photo pools. We'll also have a round up of ways to decorate a pumpkin as it gets closer to Halloween - Link.
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Oct 22, 2006 12:01 AM
Halloween, Holiday projects |
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October 21, 2006
HOW TO - Make A Cylon Jack-O-Lantern
Windell writes in with this incredible Battlestar Galactica Cyclon (robot kind, not meat kind): "For Halloween this year, we made Cylon Jack-o-lanterns in both large and small versions. The design consists of two parts, a pumpkin-carving part and an electronics part. The big idea, of course, is to make the Cylon's red eye scan back and forth. " [via] - Link.
This was entered in the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contest too!
Related:
- Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, you can enter all or just some of the contests - Link.
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Oct 21, 2006 05:29 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Halloween, Holiday projects, Home Entertainment |
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Super Halloween Haunted House props page
The Halloween Haunted House props page has 26 really good props you can build for your DIY Halloween! Pictured here, "Living head on an empty box!" Others include:
- Endless Hallway
- Living Head on a Table
- Living Head on an Empty Box
- Pepper's Ghost Metamorphosis Box
- Teeter-Board Effect
- Flip-Flop Doors in Hallway
- Man Under Glass
- Ghost Appears Effect
- Bar Room Effect
- Fog Chiller
- Fog Chiller #2
- Clean your Fog Machine
- Motion Sensor Control of Props
- Light Flicker Box
- Repeating Event Control Timer
- Drop Picture
- Spark Grid
- Car Headlights and Horn
- Pneumatic Cylinder Prop Control
- Add Sound Effects to Your Props
- Monitor Areas in Complete Darkness!
- Mad Man Scene
- Spinning Floor
- Casket Deception
- Build a Lightning Simulator
- Lady with a rubber neck
Related: Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests!
- Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, you can enter all or just some of the contests - Link.
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Oct 21, 2006 01:25 PM
DIY Projects, Halloween, Holiday projects |
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Clever uses of everyday things
Check out these weird/clever/odd/interesting uses of everyday objects by Swiss graphic design firm Atelier v - [via] - Link.
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Oct 21, 2006 12:00 PM
Arts |
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Waste paper can computer case
Here's a computer case made from a waste paper bin along with instructions on how to make your own (Chinese, but there are pictures)... [via] - Link.
Related:
- Case Mods - The Ultimate List - Link.
- Plexiglass case mods - Link.
- Sangaku Japanese case mod - Link.
- Some amazing case mods... - Link.
- Battlefield 2 case mods... - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 21, 2006 11:58 AM
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HOW TO - AfterBurner chopper bicycle
MAKE Instructable group member KoolKat from AtomicZombie has another super-cool chopper project - "Another easy and affordable project! Transform a standard bike into something cool and unique in just a day or two - seriously! This is a great garage or backyard project that doesn't require special tools or skills, although basic welding is required.
This classic 1970's style chop was named and built by Enzo and Nathan (father and son team) from an old mountain bike that was found laying in the mud at the city dump.
Instead of the extended front forks, this chopper is roughly styled after the classic Raleigh Chopper bicycle with the straight frame and tiny front wheel. This project requires no extra tubing in the frame, and except for a few small add-ons, only requires cutting and welding two frame tubes.
Any mountain bike with 26 or 24 inch wheels can be used for this project. Besides replacing the seat and handlebars, you will only need a front wheel of any size smaller than the original rear wheel. A 16-inch wheel was chosen for this build." - Link.
Related:
- Maker made bike projects @ MAKE - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 21, 2006 10:46 AM
Bicycles, DIY Projects, Instructables, Transportation |
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HOW TO - Sew circuit board knee patches
These are awesome. This kid asked for circuit board knee patches, and circuit board knee patches he got... here's how they were made - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 21, 2006 08:33 AM
Crafts |
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