MAKE: Blog: DIY Halloween : Bleeding Pictures. Not really a blood and gore fan but this could be nice
Tag Archive for Halloween
Boarded up windows
MAKE: Blog: DIY Halloween: Boarded up windows — one way to do this. An old post of mine with some other ideas. I built my own boarded up windows using foam board — lightweight, easy to hang with a tension rod, leaves no marks.
Dremels, Drill Bits, and Other Pumpkin-Carving Tools
Dremels, Drill Bits, and Other Pumpkin-Carving Tools — excellent set of tools from Brett. Funkins are awesome as they keep forever.
Basic tombstone tutorial
Here you go via Make. I wouldn’t use beaded styrofoam personally, i’d go with the blue/pink sheets of insulation, they cut a little more cleanly. But a fine guide, i like the way they used a greeting card as a stencil.
Halloween stuff
- The Living Severed Hand! via lifehacker. Nice
- Halloween spell book
- Hallowindow via make. Truly awesome and simple as hell if you have a home theatre system you can move around.
- Stirring cauldron. These can look really nice
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Tags: Halloween, Halloween Stuff, Hell, Home Theatre System, Project Ideas, Props, Spell Book
Aidtopia Haunted Mirror
Aidtopia Haunted Mirror. – akin to the exit mirrors at the Haunted Mansion, but pretty simple to build.
Extreme Pumpkin Carving
ExtremePumpkins.com – Extreme Pumpkin Carving. — some awesomeness here
Halloween Links
- MAKE: Blog: Creepy crawling skeleton.
- Big Daddy Costume. if you have played bioshock you get this
- Skeleton Disco Ball.
Joshua Allen Harris' Inflatable Bag Monsters
Joshua Allen Harris’ Inflatable Bag Monsters … – Acts of Volition. These are awesome and a great Halloween idea.
Hot glue for expressive LED diffusion
MAKE: Blog: Hot glue for expressive LED diffusion — nice looking effects. Has to be some Halloween potential
Non-circular gears in motion
MAKE: Blog: Non-circular gears in motion — nice video. I’ve got a great set of books — Ingenious Mechanisms — that show how to turn one form of motion into any other form using gears, cogs, etc. Amazing what you can do
Stuff I want but don't need — design edition
- Fluidforms :: Individual Design. — awesome topographical bowls and other objects.
- Drippable adhesives as sculpting medium. There are some cool Halloween designs hiding in this idea
- Fire fighting gun. Makes you want to have a fire nearby.
- Bits needed for making wooden train tracks — i just like the idea of doing this
- Recycled tire mulch — this actually seems like a disaster, i have a hard time believing all our plants would love this.
- Good looking LED desk lights
- Beyond the lunchpail and thermos. The Mr Bento one is cool
Halloween Haunt 101 — tombstones
OK I don’t know that I am going to pull off our regular Halloween setup this year. But if you want to set up a haunt in the neighborhood, well here is how I’d start. You can get crazy creative about the kind of scene you want to create — but nothing beats a graveyard. And to have a great graveyard you need to have tombstones.
You can buy tombstones from all kinds of retailers — Halloween specialty stores, Home Depot, garden stores, your drugstore will all carry some, mostly all with the message RIP. Some of these look good and there is nothing wrong with picking some up. The more elaborate ones can get spendy but they may be worth it.
But you can also make your own. Start with sheets of foamboard — use foamboard, not a styrofoam board which is crumbly and hard to glue together. This stuff is very carveable, you can cut out as simple or elaborate a form as you want. And you can carve designs in the face, you can bond pieces together to make pedestals (with the right glue), etc — here are some ideas, and some more. Personally I like to rough up the edges of mine a lot, and i even break some and reglue them for added ruggedness. BTW, wear a good mask when you do all this, fumes and particles come off the foamboard and it is probably a nasty biohazard.
For epitaphs, you can carve them in now prior to painting, or paint them on later, or mix the techniques. I do some of all. If you need ideas for epitaphs, well the web is full of them, just search for “epitaphs” or “funnny epitaphs”.
After you have shapes, you will need to paint. I use the cheapest paint I can find in the “Oops” bin at Home Depot as a base, and then finish with one of the various stone effect spray paints. Now, some of the stone effects don’t survive rain well, so experiment. And again, wear a mask, spray paint is nasty.
At this point you now have tombstones! Lean against walls, mount with stakes into the ground, whatever your surface allows. Note that they don’t weigh much, and if you are at a windy site, well, you are going to have a lot of movement.
In future posts I’ll layout simple lighting and sound plans.
For your Halloween consideration: The Flying Skull
The Flying Skull chomps like a flying Pac-man » Coolest Gadgets. 30 or 40 of these flying around the yard would be awesomely cheesy.
Stuff I Want But Don't Need — Geekhouse Bikes Powder Coating, Boynq Iris, Cyclone, Earthworm Hydro Drill
- Geekhouse Bikes Powder Coating Graphics — I never ride my bike, but wow could it look cool collecting dust
- Now that I’ve installed Edison, let me burn up all my savings with this dynamic LED keyboard
- Boynq Iris webcam-speaker-light-mic combo. I was just asking myself, where can I get a webcam-speaker-light-mic combo?
- Cyclone metal cleanup tool. As they say, if only this worked for sawdust
- Earthworm Hydro Drill. I actually could use this for routing cables for Halloween in the yard, tho it seems like it might be a disaster.
More trees with eyes!
MAKE: Blog: More trees with eyes! — very nice.
Stuff I want but don't need
- Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Bending Over Is For Chumps — actually I totally need this! Ordering today.
- Waspknife. For the sharks in Lake Washington.
- Jawbone 2. Rich loves it but I refuse to go bluetooth until they look less dorky. I have my pride.
- LED Candelabra for Halloween. Stupid expensive.
- Hex-pro wrenches.
- Gum Magnets. Gross. But cool.
- Picksets. awesome.
- Extruded Aluminum Dominoes. Neato.
Halloween ideas — green fire, rope lights, DMX, floor plan software
- How To Make bright green fire | Wonder How To — cool looking, i wonder how toxic this is
- Cheap ambient lighting with rope lights. Cool idea, my mausoleum could use this
- simple DMX controller. I went away from DMX as most of my effects are outside, and water doesn’t mix with dmx cabling, but maybe there is a way to rework my system — after all i basically moved all control electronics into the garage last year and just ran power cables out.
- Planningwiz floor plan software — i use a plan to layout all my halloween plans, this might be a simpler tool
Stuff I Want But Don't Need
- Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Meet Rockwell’s Jawhorse — I have a thing for portable work benches and their ilk
- Borosilicate Tea Kettle — just because I like saying it, “could you please hand me my borosilicate tea kettle?”
- Floating Wireless Speaker — there has to be a way to use this at Halloween.
- Vertical Macbook Dock — kind of cool looking
- Stylish Tape Measures — because they look awesome