- EMP cannon. Mount one of these babies on your trunk and eliminate that tailgating problem.
- Shock Cannon and here is how to get that solicitor off your porch.
- Vortex Cannon video. Probably a bit more powerful than I ever thought about building at Halloween.
Posts Tagged Halloween
Metrix Create Space
Oct 21
Scott mentioned this place, have to get there. Via this pretty useful capitol hill blog
Halloween links
Oct 2
Not doing a big Halloween thing this year due to other commitments. Saving these tips for the future…
- Monsterlist. Starting point to find any kind of halloween project
- Kurt’s tool wishlist. I can only aspire to Kurt’s skill and tool collection
- Kurt on prop setup. The guy knows more than I ever will about this
- Scott on controllers. Need to read and parse this, Scott is ahead of me here.
- Kurt on foam construction. Foam is my best friend at halloween time
- Measure tape tape. Simple but brilliant
- French Curves. Who doesn’t need these.
Witch potion labels
Aug 30
These labels are awesome. Hat tip to Kurt
grimvisions on Etsy
Aug 29
grimvisions on Etsy – Grimvisions – Where Grim Visions Become Dark Art — nice pieces from Kurt for the halloween season. I’ve seen his work in person, very very impressive.
- Solar Camping Lantern — I remember the old coleman lanterns using white gas, the pumping, the mantles. What a pain in the a$%. This looks way simpler.
- King Cobra wristwatch — awesome looking. Tho I have completely given up on wristwatches.
- Carabiners make everything better. So true.
- Denture ice cubes. Seriously awesome.
- Resistor cheat sticker. I can never remember how to speak resistor.
- Antitheft lunch bags — brilliant.
- Woven wood chairs. Beautiful. Probably uncomfortable as hell.
- Single sheet plywood design contest. I’ve made a lot of single-sheet coffins for halloween, here are some other cool ideas
- Etched glass storage jars — I have old chemist bottles I bought from various sorts, here is how to fill out your mad scientist lab.
- Cosmic nightlight. Just looks cool.
Had a great father’s day, got some cool photo tools, some books that look great, and a couple of games since I have played Left4Dead and Fallout3 to death. Here’s some stuff I didn’t get and probably for good reason.
Physical Stuff:
- Faux fountains via Scott Loftesness. Cool looking and an inspiration for Halloween.
- IP PBX tips for home. I was all excited about this several years ago but increasingly not so…having resident phone technology seems so backwards
- Projects Watches wristwatches. Cool looking but increasingly I have given up on wristwatches.
- Television emulator. I don’t know, I think the dogs would prefer to watch real TV.
- Olympus PEN. Having just hauled the Canon up and down a mountain Sunday morning, the idea of a smaller form factor camera with great lenses is appealing.
- Super Duper Denon pre-amp. Just can’t face all the cabling problems tho of disconnecting my current and connecting in a new.
Virtual Stuff:
* Mint.com. Like the idea of automated analysis of my financials, but I am just not going to give another party access to all my financial credentials. They should license these tools to financial service firms for use on their own websites.
* Cisco Network Magic. Nice review. Congrats to the former Pure Networks team.
* Filemaker Bento iPhone app. I regularly get sucked into thinking I need a database and this app is sucking me in again. I know tho I will enter 7 records and abandon the damn thing so I am holding off.
- Lamp with Pigtails | Design Milk. Seems vaguely creepy, a bunch of these with dimmers in the living room for a halloween party would be eerie.
- Love these egg lights too. Fully lit they are kind of cheery. Put a dim pulsing bulb in there and it feels like the lower deck of some alien spaceship wreckage.