DIY Halloween - amazing costumes, scary tech, pumpkins and gross food - officially awesome

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There's still plenty of time to enter the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contest (details/enter here) but here's a quick look at just *some* of DIY, hacked, modded, geeked out Halloween fun Makers around have scared up! There are about 500 and counting, they're not just pictures either, many are complete how-tos! ... It's frighteningly awesome!

Costumes
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Homemade headless Marie Antoinette costume - Link.


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Homemade "Shaun of the Dead" LEGO Minifig costume - Link.


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TRON Costume - Link.

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Godzilla Halloween costume - Link.

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Tribute to America Halloween costume - Link.


Scary Tech
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Li'l Sparky - Miniature electric chair Halloween gadget - Link.

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Grim reaper puppet - Link.

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Candy Cannon - Link.

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Spooky Arduino Projects - Link.

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Pneumatic Tombstone - Link.


Hack-o-Lanterns
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HOW TO - Make A Cylon Jack-O-Lantern - Link.

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HOW TO - Build a robotic Dalek Pumpkin - Link.


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Easy Itty-Bitty Blinky LED Jack-O'-Lantern - Link.

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Make A Programmable LED Pumpkin - Link.

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MAKE: PUMPKIN - Link.


Halloween eats, gross
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Cannibal-themed Halloween supper - Link.

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Zieak's Halloween party... ewwww - Link.

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Thorax cake - Link.

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Killer rat cake... - Link.

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Cockroach cake - Link.

More:

  • The MAKE & CRAFT halloween contest has over 500+ photos/entries in the different MAKE/CRAFT pools, you can see them all here.
  • Contest details - Link.
  • Tons of geeky, techy, diy halloween projects (over 200 in our collection) - Link.


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Posted by: Jnixon on October 31, 2006 at 1:28 PM

Man, some of these are disgusting! Great post!


Posted by: ryanne on January 18, 2008 at 5:03 AM

fantastic! i wouldn't eat the cockroach cake if you paid me... ...


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