October 28, 2006

Great pumpkin carving tutorial

Gallery / Toys and Collectibles - Villafane Studios Artist Ray Villafane

A great pumpkin carving tutorial from a sculptor.

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October 24, 2006

Audiologica: Build yourself a headphone amp

Audiologica

A great site with all kind of designs and instructions for building a DIY headphone amp. Really useful and easy to understand.

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October 23, 2006

Creepy Finger Cookies and brain jello

eG Forums -> Playing with Food

Creepy Halloween goodies. The finger cookies are crazy ugly creepy. The brain is more realistic looking than most. Awesome.

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October 20, 2006

Songvird: a media player with promise

Songbirdnest.com | Songbird Media Player

A desktop webplayer with a crazy array of features. download this and check it out.

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Foam sculpting tools

Hotwire Foam Factory

This site sells "hot wire" type tools for sculpting styrofoam. Good for making things like fake tombstones for Halloween.

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Tutorial on foam tombstones

:DemonWare - Tombstones:

A tutorial on on eway to make prop/fake tombstones for Halloween. Nice results.

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October 19, 2006

Kee Klamp

Simplified Building Concepts :: The Kee Klamp Concept

A really cool joint system for building with pipe. Kee Klamps come in all kinds of configurations to make frames for structures using tubular pipe of varying materials.

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October 18, 2006

Yet Another iPod Manager

Yet another iPod manager - Home

An alternative to iTunes. And it doesn't install into the registry. Cool.

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October 17, 2006

Poison Ivy pre and post protection

Buji

Cool. A preventative lotion and an after wash specifically targetted for Poison Ivy. Since I Geocache and I am more than normally allergic to the stuff this is a must have for me.

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October 16, 2006

Great resource for making a "graveyard" fence for your Halloween setup.

Halloween Technology Roadmap

A great site with lits of tips and lessons learned on building home Halloween supplies. Especially useful is the info on their making a "Graveyard Fence".

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Heat-reactive Color-changing tiles

Showcase

These are some heat-reactive color-changing tiles. THe example they use could be called a "Mood Shower". I wold like to see if you used them on the floor if they would show footprints where a barefoot person walked.

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October 15, 2006

A list of CarPC front ends

List of front-ends/other useful apps - MP3Car.com Forums

A nice list of CarPC front ends to use for your homebuilt CarPC. Many of them are free or have demo versions.

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October 13, 2006

Dancing Santa turned into a Halloween prop

Haunters Hangout Hangman Dancing Santa Hack

A great page showing how one guy turned a dancing santa into a kicking hangman prop for halloween. Must make one of these.

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Super-precision machined building wood blocks

Keva, little wooden building planks, similar to Kapla blocks

These blocks are manufactured with such precision that they were able to use them to construct a over 51ft tower using nothing but gravity and friction to hold it together. Awesome.

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Make your own dream machine glasses

MAKE a mind control hypnosis dream machine Cheap

A cool DIY for making glasses that flash lights at you. Purported to help some people sleep better.

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Cut that butter!

The One-Click Butter Cutter - The New Butter Dish & Butter Slicer

Wow. This goes well with my inside the egg scrambler. This guy must have been pissed when they came out with squeeze butter.

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LED Candle circuits

A cool site full of cancle circuits. Need to start making these over the summer next year for halloween.

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October 12, 2006

Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine - Science Fiction Publication

Cool. THis is the first I have heard of this Science Fiction magazine. Looks interesting. I love the artwork for this month's cover. I may need to consider subscibing to it.

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October 11, 2006

Polymorph: low temp pliable building and crafting material

Polymorph

A low temperature molding and crafting material.

From the website:Polymorph is one of a new generation of commercial polymers set to have a major impact on model making and prototyping. This polymer has all the characteristics of a tough “engineering” material yet it fuses and becomes easily mouldable at just 62°C. It can be heated with just hot water or a hairdryer and moulded by hand to create prototypes and solve manufacturing problems currently outside the capacity of other materials.


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October 10, 2006

A great site for pumpkin stencils

Zombie Pumpkins! - pumpkin carving patterns

Great patterns for carving pumpkins. Also has some really cool tiki designs for carving watermelons. Cool for my next luau.

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October 09, 2006

Put a screensaver on your iPod

MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Enable the iPodScreenSaver

A quick note on how to make a repeating video on your video iPod. Links to other hacks and mods too!

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October 08, 2006

Bike Painting Tips

Bike Painting Tips

A nice collection of tips for painting a bycycle. Since I am in the process of restoring an old bike I got at the thrift shop I wanted to save this link.

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October 07, 2006

Flying Crank Ghost

The Flying Crank Ghost - Instructions, Part 1

A great tutorial on how to make a really nice Flying Crank Ghost for Halloween. I need to make one of these.

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October 06, 2006

Cobweb guns

Cob Web Glue Gun Shooters, Air Cannons, Glow in the Dark, Neon & UV Hot Glue Sticks - Effects - Minions Web Haunting Products - Cobwebs

Awesome! Apparently they use glue guns fed with compressed air to make durable cobweb effects. You can buy a gun from these guys. Neat.

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October 05, 2006

Awesome Green Lantern Ring Instructable

How to make a Green Lantern ring

This is an awesome instructable where the author shows how he made a real ring of all three human GLs. Really neat.

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October 04, 2006

Animated Lighting - Tutorial on the Animated Haunted House

Workshop Lesson: The Animated Haunted House

A great workshop lesson that documents the possibilities that can be achieved with Animated Lighting's products and programming to create an animated haunted house.

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October 03, 2006

Cowlacious makes for cool scary effects

Computer & Electronic Services

Cowlacious Designs provides a bunch of cool products for your home Halloween effects. Especially cool is the Cave Eyes effects - a set of 15 LED pairs that blink individually looking like some sort of little critters (like rats or bats) with little blinking eyes.

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October 02, 2006

Sweet Google Maps hack with a simple USB GPS unit

reg:exp: GPS Google Maps Mash-up in 42 lines of code

This is a great quick hack for google maps to work with a USB GS unit. And it only uses 42 lines of code!

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