The Great Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories Halloween Project Archive!
Halloween is one of our favorite holidays, and our collection of Halloween projects continues to grow. Every fall we update it to include our latest projects for the season. In the list that follows, we’ve organized dozens of our Halloween projects into categories: costumes, pumpkins, decor and food.
Last updated: 10/2019.
If you’re inspired by one of these projects to make something, we’d love to see photos in the flickr auxiliary!
Costumes
The Umbrella Bat Costume (Link)
The (Slightly) Anatomically Accurate Umbrella Bat Costume (Link)
A Traveling Exhibition of Modern Art (the Halloween Costume) (Link)
Make a Flying Spaghetti Monster Costume (Link)
Crocodile Costume (Link)
Kraftwerk Tie (Link)
Pumpkinheads (Link)
Giant sword (Link)
3D Goggles (Link)
Robot heart (Link)
Drawing on costumes with AxiDraw (Link)
Pumpkins
Make A Cylon Jack-O-Lantern (Link)
MiniPOV Cylon (Link)
The Larson Scanner Kit (Link)
Make a Robotic Snap-O-Lantern (Link)
Easy Itty-Bitty Blinky LED Jack-O’-Lantern (Link)
A Robotic Dalek Pumpkin (Link)
A dark detecting circuit for your jack-o’-lantern (Link)
Easy halloween project: 8-bit gourds! (Link)
Simple solar circuits (Link)
Stock Ticker Pumpkin: Scariest Jack-o’-Lantern of 2008 (Link)
Rovin Pumpkin (Link)
A pumpkin that sleeps like a Mac (Link)
Printing on a strangely shaped egg (Link)
Eggbotting for Halloween (Link)
Pumpkin Faces for EggBot (Link)
Blinky Pumpkin (Link)
Your own private mini-pumpkin jack O’lantern army (Link)
Simple LED Pumpkins (Link)
Decor
LED Ghosties (Link)
How to hack LEDs into Lego minifigures for Halloween (Link)
Lego Abominations (Link)
Turning Mollie into Maulie (Link)
Peggy-O-Lantern (Link)
24 Hour Tombstones (Link)
Magnetic Googly Eyes (Link)
Flickering LEDs for props and pumpkins (Link)
Art Controller Kit, for controlling your Halloween effects (Link)
Halloween Candy Magnets (Link)
Solderless Flickery Flame (Link)
Flickery Flame Soldering Kits (Link)
Psychedelic Flame Soldering Kit (Link)
Food
Cooking hot dogs via electrocution (Link)
Edible Googly Eyes (Link)
Pumpkin Spice Truffles (Link)
Eyeball Caprese (Link)
Halloween Cuisine: Sweet or Savory Specimen Jars (Link)
Crunchy Frogs (Link)
Mermaid Purse (Link)
I love Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, but most of the time I read it and think, “Wow… that’s so cool, but… huh-wha?” because when it comes to circuits and such things I am most definitely unschooled.
HOWEVER, this Halloween I got it into my head to do some sort of functioning robot pumpkin for my company’s pumpkin carving competition, which led me to the absolutely fantastic Dalek pumpkin. Since I am functionally retarded where circuits, servos, etc. are concerned, I ended up cheating somewhat – repurposing the chassis of an RC jeep to make the thing move, or installing an IR remote controlled Lego motor to turn the head, for example – but the result was good enough to take first place.
In my mind I envisioned a Victorian steampunk-style robot, but we only had an hour to complete our masterpieces, so the end result wasn’t 100% the vision in my brain – like the cardboard base sprayed with stone-textured spray paint did not look very stone-like – but hey. It was fun.
Here it is in action:
Steampunk’in on YouTube
Thanks for the site. It’s inspirational!!!