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Halloween DIY – How to Make a Pumpkin that Honks!

Posted on October 12, 2009 by max

Here’s a fun Halloween DIY that shows you how to make a pumpkin that HONKS!  It would be even cooler if the pumpkin honks when people are near by using sensors, still a great idea for gadgetizing your pumpkin, bravo!

Control board showing the two 555 timers, two MOSFETs, pot to control horn blast timing and other discrete elements. The first 555 timer starts when the red button is pushed and it turns on the red 12v bulbs through the 1st MOSFET (P10NK60ZFP). After 1 second this timer stops and cascades a

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

Posted on October 28, 2008 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAl8aSZhSz8

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 white LED will glow, there will be a slight delay, and the servo will trigger a blast from

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DIY – How to Make a Pumpkin Centerpiece!

Posted on October 24, 2008 by max

Looking for a cool centerpiece decoration for your home?  Well, here’s a great DIY on how to make a pumpkin centerpiece to lighten up your kitchen, livingroom, wherever you need more Halloween spirits.

It’s been such a long time since I’ve done something with flowers, so I wanted to incoporate fresh flowers in this weeks project. I did a centerpiece with white pumpkins (technically, i think they are gourds) as the base with accents using plain old begonias. I always try to make my projects versatile, so colors can be altered to f

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Halloween DIY – How to Make Photo Pumpkins!

Posted on October 21, 2008 by max

The country has been going crazy lately with all these Obama fans making their own Obama fan Halloween pumpkins.  Well, here’s a cool DIY that shows you how to make such photo pumpkins so you can make one for your lover’s face too.

If you’re going to carve a pumpkin, you might as well make it really awesome. And a photo pumpkin is about as awesome as you can get!

Carve your pumpkins the same day you want to display them, since finely carved details

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DIY Crafty Halloween Ideas!

Posted on October 7, 2008 by max

Here’s some really neat DIY crafty Halloween Ideas involving your pumpkin and some creativity.

If you’re looking for some easy ideas for Halloween decorating and entertaining, try these quick crafts. They’re sure to beautify (or boo-tify) your home with a minimum of effort.

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Nextar 3.5-inch Castle and Pumpkin Digital Photo Frames!

Posted on September 18, 2008 by max

Check out these cool digital photo frames that come embedded in a castle or pumpkin, perfect for gift to your children’s room.

3.5″ 262k colour TFT QVGA display

Resolution of 320×240

Media slot for SD, MMC or Memory Stick cards of up to 2GB capacity

Supports most types of JPEG files

Dimensions:

Castle – 9.4″ x 7.8″ x 0.8″

Carriage – 7.9″ x 6.1 x 0.

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Zedomax DIY 116- Halloween HOWTO make a talking pumpkin basket!

Posted on October 25, 2006 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0FG7VXLV3U

My girlfriend asked me she wanted a cool halloween basket for her house on halloween, so I made her a halloween backet with some parts that I had lying around.

I figured I could use the voice module that I bought at Radio Shack for like 10 bucks a couple

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DIY Circuit – Adjustable Strobe Light

Posted on October 22, 2006 by max

Here’s a cool adjustable strobe light you can make for your next party or halloween strobe light pumpkin.

This one uses a much more powerful “horse shoe” Xenon tube which produces more light. You can also control the flash rate up to about 20Hz. Do not look directly at the flash tube when this thing is on!

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