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Food Hack - How to Make Chocolate Pasta!

by max on June 24th, 2009
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I personally don’t really like to eat sweets much, probably because I ate too many of them when I was young and had some horrifying experience at my dentist. Chocolate pasta still might be great for some of you out there who love chocolate and other sweets. Here’s how to make it yourself and knock yourself out. I know I know. Chocolate pasta. Those 2 words really shouldn ...

Bluetooth Hack - How to Make a Steampunk Bluetooth Headset!

by max on February 26th, 2009
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I have never been a fan of bluetooth headsets (yet) due to the undiscovered side effects (that most consumers don’t know about) but if you must, I highly suggest reading up on how to make a Steampunk bluetooth headset. Last halloween I dressed up in an old fashioned manor with my cell phone in a pocket keychain. The chain was too short for the phone to reach my ear. This left me w ...

Baking Hack - How to make Vampire cupcakes for Twilight parties

by andrew on December 4th, 2008
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Okay, this is kinda a Halloween thing. But my wife likes cupcakes any time and all her friends are in to these Twilight vampire movies and books. So, In honor of my lady, here’s some cool cupcake hacks: ...

DIY Halloween LED Music Player!

by max on October 30th, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a really cool lookin’ LED Music Player for this Halloween you can set by the front door window and entertain your trick-or-treaters. Basically, I wanted to build some kind of LED matrix driven by an Arduino and laptop for some kind of Halloween costume this year. I ended up using Di ...

Halloween DIY - How to Make Poor Man’s Octopus Costume!

by max on October 30th, 2008
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If you are a gadgeteer, plumber, or some kind of hard-core DIYer, you might want to consider this poor man’s version of Doctor Octopus costume for this Halloween. Simply get some of those left over hardware parts and put them together for nice octopus tentacle effect that’s going to annoy and entertain anyone around you at the Halloween party. To be perfectly honest, while t ...

Halloween Hack - How to Make a Singing Skull!

by max on October 28th, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Well, it’s coming real close to Halloween (and yes, I’ve already booked myself at a Halloween rave), here’s another really cool Singing Skull you can possibly make. (if you still have enough time) What’s it saying? It sounds kind of like “I’m on sale” to me. I guess they just ...

Halloween DIY - How to Make an LED Pumpkin with Arduino!

by max on October 28th, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Yey, here’s another cool LED Pumpkin you can make, sorta different from the one I made couple years ago but this one, you can use Arduino to make it. The Arduino is programmed to pulse the eye LEDs until the victim, I mean trick-or-treater, presses the big red button. At that point the bright w ...

DIY Arduino Simulated LED Flames!

by max on October 27th, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a great example of how you can make a simulated LED flame using Arduino and some LEDs. If you are looking for that special flame effect for this Halloween without all the really hazardous fire, this might be a great alternative to real fire. The code accepts an arbitrary number of LED o ...

Halloween DIY - How to Make ‘Redneck’ Batman Mask wit ...

by max on October 27th, 2008
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One of my best friends from college is a true redneck from the northern state of California in Eureka. Of course, to be a true redneck, he told me you must be able to fix/make anything with duct tape. In honor of my redneck friend, here’s how to make your own ‘redneck’ Batman Mask with duct tape. (I might actually do this soon as I am running out of ideas for a Hallo ...

Halloween DIY - How to Make Fake Wound!

by max on October 26th, 2008
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Halloween is almost here and if you haven’t had the time to think of Halloween Costume Ideas, then you might be able to get away by making bunch of fake wounds on your body. What you’ll need is: -Black, red, and brown acrylic paint. (For an infected looking cut, you’ll also need green and yellow paint) -A bottle of fake blood. (Found at nearly any costume shop) -Scar w ...