* Fold out shelving system. Wow this is just awesome looking.
* Kurt’s key list of propbuilding tools.
* Rich and Bob’s Tripod reco — Gitzo1541T and the Really Right Stuff BH-40LR. I actually need this.
* Hangman light. Awesome tho I think the rest of the family might object.
Tag: Lighting
Stuff I Want But Don't Need — Leg Lamp edition
Remember the Leg Lamp from A Christmas Story?
* USB Aroma Diffuser/Hub/Moodlight — good to see that the tech industry inventive spirit remains alive, with products like this the US economy will remain a juggernaut for years to come.
* Paperclip Lamp. I bet it breaks if you adjust it too many times.
* GSelect. A whole site of overdesigned stuff that I should probably avoid.
* Infinite Attic. To store all the crap I shouldn’t have bought. Sadly I could really use this…
Stuff I Want But Don't Need — Themeless
* 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.
DIY links — plywood,glass etching,nightlight
* 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.
My fascination with strange lighting
* 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.
The flashlight jumps the shark
Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Preview: Stanley 3-in-1 Tripod Flashlight. For the person who already has 37 flashlights and wants more.
Hot glue for expressive LED diffusion
MAKE: Blog: Hot glue for expressive LED diffusion — nice looking effects. Has to be some Halloween potential
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
Serious Biker Gear
Some of my partners claim to be bicyclists but until they have one of these setups, I’m not buying it
Lemnis Pharox LED Bulb
Cool Tool: Lemnis Pharox LED Bulb — seems like a good bulb. ordered.
Mathmos lights
Mathmos Lights – USA and Canada Shop only – Mathmos Lights USA and Canada Shop only — I’m a sucker for these
Tesla Tuesday
Dark Roasted Blend: Tesla Power in Your Backyard — some awesome Tesla coil displays
Lighting ideas
* Welcome to tapemonster.com — some glow in the dark tape up here, might be useful
* Lunabrite rope light. probably not that useful for halloween projects but still cool.
Early early halloween planning
One thing I have plenty of is fog. Between my whole yard fog system and my 4-5 point fog systems, i have fog galore.
This year I’d like to do a little more with fog and lighting. Fog Machine Vortex is one idea i may try. Another I am working on is to project a ghostly image onto a dense area of fog — kind of like fogscreen but way cheaper.
All things Tesla
Dave found an awesome site on tesla coils — Tesla_Downunder — the laser stuff on this sight is awesome as well
Plasma bulbs
Plasma Light: Way Cool Tesla Device for a Lamp — these could be useful in a halloween mad scientist setup
Glowing orb
From Make, plans for a glowing orb — lots of ways to use this idea for halloween.
Great LED products
Super Bright LEDs — lots of great LED products up here, I am getting some UV LEDs to replace some lamps in some Malibu lights.
New Halloween finds
* i-Zombie.com • Welcome! — high power color organs — 1200 watts!!! this is tremendous.
* Unit 70 — great skeletons
thanks to kurt for the tips.