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September 25, 2009

Eat my arm. Gain my power.

I'm expecting a lot of prawn-armed Wikuses (Wiki?) this year, but the award goes to YouTuber GrafixFan for producing the first bloggable District-9-related Halloween costume images I've seen. We must harvest his tissues immediately.

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

How-To: Make a pneumatic grave-escaping ghoul

Interesting video tutorial from YouTuber casafear1 showing how to create a pneumatically actuated zombie "ground-breaker."

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

September 24, 2009

Post-apocalyptic pneumatic werewolf

I have to say that of all the improbable phrases I've run across blogging, "post-apocalyptic pneumatic werewolf" may well be the the weirdest. Which only makes this haunted house prop by Terra of HalloweenForum.com (her tagline: "Terror of the Cul de Sac") just that much more, well, wicked, than it already is.

(Sorry.)

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

Electrocution prop par excellence

The electric chair is an old haunted-house standby, but YouTuber kenpilot's version is really outstanding. Excelsior!

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

September 23, 2009

Prop art

There is in fact no evidence that this wonderful perpetually-drumming-fingers automaton by Nik Ramage was ever intended to be anything but a piece of art. But it had the bad fortune to come across my desk in the midst of the Make: Halloween Contest 2009 frenzy so I am hereby diminishing it to the status of Halloween prop. At least potentially. Personally, if I could afford one I'd leave it out all year under a spotlight. Beautiful.

Highlights from TransWorld Halloween show 2009

If you're needing inspiration for your haunted house this year, you need look no further than this video by Terra of HalloweenForum.com showing the highlights of her visit to the 2009 annual TransWorld Halloween & Attractions Show. My personal faves include a door that dents inward as an ax murderer apparently chops on it from the other side, a struggling victim chained in a box full of water, and giant vampire bats that swoop down from the ceiling.

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

September 22, 2009

Lift-and-turn piston from PVC pipe fittings

This doo-dad is a telescoping PVC fitting sold as a "Qwik Fix" or "Slip Fix." It's intended to be used to repair broken sections of pipe, but Chuck Rice has posted a venerable tutorial on converting one for use as a pneumatic piston in a haunted-house prop. Chuck's design both lifts and turns with a single stroke. Clever!

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

Grid beams for Halloween props

Creatrope has posted an interesting discussion on the use of Phil Jergensen's reusable grid beam elements for Halloween props. I dunno how much I can get behind the whole gridbeamer thing just yet, but for seasonal stuff it does make a certain sense: If you like it a whole bunch, store it complete, and if you don't, take it apart and reuse the elements.

September 21, 2009

Cenobite pumpkin

He does not look happy. Another gem from Tom Nardone's ExtremePumpkins.com.

Thermite pumpkin

And you thought those kids were mean to your pumpkin last year.

Barrel of Halloween laughs. And, you know, vomit.

In an effort to test the new boundaries afforded by my Make: Halloween Contest 2009 beat, I bring you this bulemic zombie prop robot that pukes on command into a toxic waste drum thoughtfully labeled "inedible." A steal at only $2750 apiece, they are sadly and incomprehensibly discontinued. I was planning to order a matching set of five for the baby's room, too. Seriously, though, someone should remake this. It's handy all year long!

September 20, 2009

Warhammer 40K cosplayers

So I spent an embarrassingly large amount of time this morning Googling around trying to find the best homemade Space Marine costume in the universe. Such is the blogging life. Apart from a couple of professionally-made props, these costumes from JesterSet's DragonCon 2005 photo-set take the trophy. I have almost no information about the makers or the wearers, regrettably. Help me out in the comments if you can.

September 19, 2009

Art deco Cthulhu idol

If you're a Lovecraft fan and have not yet seen the HPLHS's 2005 silent-film adaptation of Call of Cthulhu, well, there may be nothing, anywhere, that's more important than that you go do so immediately. So. Very. Good. The look they achieve on a low budget is amazing, and a lot of that is due to the outstanding props, including several awesome Cthulhu idols, many of which are available in reproduction. But the art deco "LeGrasse" idol shown here is my favorite.

September 18, 2009

Processing script makes Mona's eyes move

Bitartist has written and posted a Processing script that causes the eyes of an onscreen portrait to follow your face as you move past a camera. Primo haunted house material. Thanks man!

Nightmare Lego

If you are clinging to Lego as the last uncorrupted innocence of your childhood, look away! This is creepy stuff, and at any other time of the year would be totally inappropriate content. Ain't Halloween great?

September 17, 2009

A skeleton is electrocuted on Mark Csele's porch

Dr. Mark Csele is a professor at Niagara College. Just found this page covering some of his past Halloween displays. In his own words:

Our 2008 display, pictured here, featured a skeleton in an electric chair. When a kid approaches the porch the system triggers and the skeleton rises out of the chair accompanied by fog, a strobe light, and loud sounds of an electrical arc. The front window featured a rear-projection video of a large tesla coil operating with large arcs streaming everywhere to complete the 'mad scientist' appearance....The electric chair has a light rope for the "wires" connecting the skeleton to the chair. Upon triggering fog is released by a fog machine behind the chair, illuminated by eerie green light and a strobe light.

Nice work, doc! Have you seen our 2009 Make: Halloween Contest? (Hint hint.)

September 16, 2009

Flashback: Ultimate Fog Chiller

With our Halloween Contest well under way, I just had to choose a quick and dirty flashback from our Halloween issue, which came out in August of 2007. Bump up the creepiness in a hurry with some thick fog to get the mood set just right. Here's the how-to:

Ultimate Fog Chiller
Build the chiller that won the 2004 HauntCon Chill-Off competition.
By Adam Tourkow

Chilled fog creates an appealingly eerie blanket on the ground. Most homemade fog chillers use a drink cooler and PVC tubing, but that design doesn't keep the fog in the holding area long enough to chill it properly. Our fog chiller is very easy to build and does a great job of cooling the fog.

MATERIALS

¾-size trash can or bigger
18' (approx.) of aluminum duct (dryer hose)
Lots of dry ice or water ice
Water-resistant duct tape
Drill with 4" hole saw or a utility knife

DIRECTIONS

Step 1: Cut 2 holes in the trash can, on opposite sides, with the hole saw or knife. The holes should be sized so that the dryer hose fits snugly into them. The exit hole goes at the bottom, and the hole for the fogger nozzle goes about 2" higher on the other side.

Step 2: The aluminum dryer hose comes in 6' pieces, so attach the 3 sections together using water-resistant duct tape.

Step 3: From the inside of the can, feed one end of the tubing out of the lower (exit) hole, and coil the rest of the hose around the inside of the can. Once you get to the top, feed the tube back down and out
the upper (fogger nozzle) hole.

Step 4: That's it for construction! Now, just fill the trash can with ice, attach the fogger, and let' er rip.

Note: If you've got a powerful fogger, you can cover more area by using a cardboard box with a hole for the output tube and a slit at the bottom for the fog to come out in a wider pattern.

Addendum: (From Adam's site) I have recently been enlightened by other haunters that using a leaf sized garbage bag at the output of the chiller helps keep the fog denser and closer to the ground. Cut a hole on the closed side of the bag, attach that end to the output, and the fog will creep out slower from the large end. Here's a pic of it in action from Count Zero:

About the Author:
Adam Tourkow (ghostsofhalloween.com) lives in Santa Monica, Calif., and is a full-time web developer. He has to borrow his in-laws' house to run his annual haunted house.

For tons more maker-style Halloween fun, you can still pick up a back issue of Make: Halloween over in the Maker Shed.

Vrogy's Halo 3 marine armor

Meet Michael Vroegop, aka "Vrogy." He made this set of Halo 3 marine armor for the last Dragoncon. His site doesn't include a lot of details about his process, but I'm pretty sure he starts with digital 3D models, converts them using Pepakura, has them CNC cut, and then folds them up for use either as direct parts or as molds. Vrogy, if you see this, you might take a sec to fill us in down in the comments about how it's done. Also, please consider this a gilded invitation to submit a project to our 2009 Make: Halloween Contest.

Steampunk beer goggles

Er, I mean, "Professor Fate's Patent Ocular Beautification Device." These were submitted as an entry in our 2009 Make: Halloween Contest but regrettably disqualified for failure to include a microcontroller. Professor Fate himself, aka Instructables user sluggoweezul, shows you how to make your own. "No Home Should Be Without!"

Handmade Cthulhu mask

Artist Jennifer Harrison of Masks by Jen hand-tools and -paints leather to make this and other amazing custom masks.

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