In preparation for Halloween, we’ve gathered our tips and tricks for plotting on pumpkins with an Eggbot.
We first demonstrated printing on pumpkins with an Eggbot last year at Maker Faire New York.
Continue reading Eggbotting for Halloween
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Eggbot Egg Roundup!
Happy Easter! Here’s a round up of some of the amazing things that people have been making with their Egg-Bot Kits.
Reddit Logo Egg by our friend bbum, who also posted about his fun with the Eggbot.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Gareth over at Make put up a sweet post called Giving thanks for the joy of making:
“We like the phrase “the joy of making” around here. It may sound a tad new agey, but most people who frequent this site and are involved with any type of hands-on activity certainly know what we’re talking about. I had a memorable example of this recently. I did a residency last month at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. One night, I did a BEAM robot workshop for one of my classes. I also had a couple of Evil Mad Scientist Labs Larson Scanner Kits with me. A group of four students excitedly grabbed one of the kits and hurried off to a corner to build it…”
Read how it turned out over at the Make blog.
Your own private mini-pumpkin jack O’lantern army
One of our favorite low tech halloween decorations is a (tiny) army of mini jack o’lanterns. Here’s how to carve your own. Continue reading Your own private mini-pumpkin jack O’lantern army
Halloween Projects!
A pumpkin that sleeps like a Mac
Here’s an neat idea for a jack-o’-lantern: Hide a single white LED just beneath the thin surface of the pumpkin. And program it with the same slow “breathing” effect that indicates sleep on Mac computers.
The result? A pumpkin that sleeps like a Mac. It’s actually quite striking, in part because the effect becomes invisible every few seconds. It’s also an easy microcontroller project: our demonstration video and build instructions follow. Continue reading A pumpkin that sleeps like a Mac
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories: Year 4
Happy birthday to us! Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has now been around for four years. We’ve collected some interesting projects from this past year to celebrate.
Microcontroller and Electronics Projects:
Moving from breadboard to protoboard
Revenge of the Cherry Tomatoes
Accelerometer with an AVR (updated)
Wallet-size LED Resistance Calculator
Science:
Gibberellic Acid and Giantism in Sprouts
Simple LED Projects:
Food Hacking:
Marmalade: easier than it looks
Kit Projects:
Crafty Projects:
Geek Design:
Typgraphical Character Coasters
And, don’t forget, you can win a Peggy 2 or one of 13 other prizes in our clock
concept contest, going on this week.
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Deck the halls with fine components
Ever since our wine charm project, we’ve been amassing an ever-growing collection of interesting-looking electronic components. It turns out that they happen to make pretty good Christmas tree ornaments.
Refining Edge-Lit Holiday Cards
We’ve picked up a bunch of improvements on our Edge-Lit Holiday Cards since last year and we’ve collected them here for you to see. (Also, welcome Popular Science readers! This project is mentioned in the December 2009 issue.)
Contest reminder!
We’ve seen a lot of great Arduino Halloween projects out there this year. A few of them have been submitted to our Arduino contest over at Instructables, and we’d love to see more. The entry deadline is Nov. 15, so you’ve still got time to send them in.
Speaking of contests, the Make Halloween contest deadline is here. Quick, get those microcontroller projects entered before midnight on Nov. 3!
