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More trees with eyes!
MAKE: Blog: More trees with eyes! — very nice.
Electric Motors for Props – Bride of Power Pack – Halloween Prop Building Supplies For The Home Haunter – Monster Guts
Electric Motors for Props – Bride of Power Pack – Halloween Prop Building Supplies For The Home Haunter – Monster Guts — new product from these guys for halloween, a variable speed power controller for wiper motors. pretty useful and not crazy expensive. and halloween is less than 6 months out…
Chicken Wire Ghost
Easy, Do-It-Yourself Ghost : Wacky Archives — nice. I don’t know that I have the viewing distance in my yard to make this effective. But not a hard thing to try out.
Stuff for Halloween — Voice Modifier, Rotary Chisels
- digital voice changer kit — I already have a voice mod box that I use with a large prop, but this might be a nice one to use on my person as part of a costume.
- Rotary Chisels — look great for carving tombstones etc.
Stuff I want but don't need — grabbag
- The Gadgets Weblog: Wacom Bamboo Fun — I’ve always wanted a tablet.
- Painter’s Pyramid — actually seem highly useful
- 160Megapixel camera — on the road to gigapixel cameras
- Sandisk TakeTV. this keeps calling out to me as the way to get home movies down on the tv.
- 8 core macpro with decent graphics options
- Garmin forerunner 405
Mirror fun
- ImaginEERIEing : Mirror — I’ve mentioned this one before, really need to find time to build one of these. next year…
- Just a concept — manipulatable mirror
H2O spray latex
Krylon | Spray Your Way – Krylon H2O Latex — recommended by a fellow halloween enthusiast
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Halloween mausoleum
May build a little mausoleum for this halloween. Some motivating pictures:
- Palm_Cemetery_in_Winter_Park,_FL_-_Creepy_Mausoleum.jpg (JPEG Image, 1797×1188 pixels) – Scaled (60%)
- Stengel
- Buhne
- Hierapolis
- Collier Crypt
Oh and here someone else built one — Someone else’s halloween crypt
Halloween props
- Outdoor Garden Statues – Decor — some resin statuary up here that would be good in a graveyard setting
- Inflatable Hearse — a little too cheesy maybe. but cool.
- MAKE special halloween edition — ordered
- Servo-Center. need to dig into more
- The Hand. Would be awesome to play with
Stupid Halloween Gadget
Help, there’s a poltergeist in the library! ? Coolest Gadgets — at this price, probably incredibly cheesy, but still kind of cool.
Laser and Fog Jack o Lantern
Way too much work for a jack o lantern but still cool — instructables : Jack-O-Laser of Doom
Halloween 07 planning
Geez it is may and I haven’t done crap for Halloween planning. The time to buy parts and build is rapidly approaching. Monster Guts sent me nice reminder spam, I might try some pressure mats this year.
Halloween shopping
- Monster Guts — some nice things in here, i need to look at the iogeek product a little more
- Battery operated candles — these seem a little pricey, i suspect you could buy some of the flicker led products out there and embed them in your own candles for less money.
- Amazon deep discount links — nice, i bet there is some good stuff in the 90% off section that might be good for halloween
EFX-TEK Prop2 controller
Kurt pointed this out to me — EFX-TEK :: Prop-2 Controller — new version, more outputs, BS2 syntax. Looking good.
Glowing orb
From Make, plans for a glowing orb — lots of ways to use this idea for halloween.
Foam coffin plans
Spooky Blue’s Halloween Home Made Coffin — there are more efficient plans for creating a coffin out of a single sheet, but the exterior detailing on this project is nice.
Magic Mirror
Pretty cool — Magic Message Mirror -Themeaddicts Inc. — for halloween purposes I’d like a slightly ghastlier visage. But nice work.
Halloween 2006 Status — Pneumatics
I’m feeling pretty good about pneumatics for this halloween.
My primary use is for a creature crate. This is working really well, money well spent as I don’t think I could have created anything as durable as this. I’ve “retired” my opening/closing coffin from last year as this crate is jus so much more effective.
A secondary use is for a popping ghost. I’m using an efx-tek prop controller with some 24vdc smc solenoids (off ebay) to shoot a blast of 120psi air at irregular intervals. The air is directed upwards along a line from the ground up to a tree limb, and a lightweight ghost (gauzy fabric around a clear plastic cup which catches the air blast) flies up the string 10 feet and then settles down. I’ll position it all behind a tombstone and light the ghost path. The pneuma and mechanics are rock solid, I’m happy with them. The ghost is fine, at night in sudden bursts no one will see how crappy it really looks. I’d love to have the skill/ideas to create a better lightweight ghost — it has to catch the air blast in a stiff inner cup structure, needs a lot of gauzy outstructure to float around, and needs to weigh very little — I am probably at 4 oz now and wouldn’t want it heavier. Oh and be weather resistant as this is for outdoor use.
Notes for 2007: better looking ghost. And build 3 of these for different spots in the yard.