I know that the holiday season is past, but remember that pumpkins can also be a symbol of Thanksgiving! So, can you make a camera out of a fleshy autumn squash? Apparently you can…
pinhole camera made from a real pumpkin! on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Category: DIY
DIY Photobooth Project
Now this could be some serious fun at a large party. Who will be the first to add an input screen and make your very own sicker photo booth (purikura)? These would be simple enough to make as a portable unit, maybe mount it on the back of a bike so you would have a mobile booth. Cool street party fun!
This is a tutorial on how to build your own photobooth much like the traditional ones seen at malls, amusement parks, and shopping centers the world over. This booth however is completely digital and is much much cheaper/easier to do at home…
[via MAKE]
How to Make a Cricket Bat For a Costume
At the last second I decided to go ahead and make a Halloween costume. I was inspired by a commercial for the movie Shaun of the Dead. Funny zombie movie. How cool would that be? I mean I’m going to go out and oversee my kids why not wear something fun? I quickly collected that basics, white shirt, red tie, name badge, and a cricket bat. The first three are easy, I can either make or buy those but a cricket bat is something that I’m a bit short on. I’ve held one before so I know what they look like up close so armed with that and a few photos off the ‘net I can come up with something that should look pretty close to a bat.
Easy 35mm Pinhole Camera
Take one cheap fixed focus single shutter speed camera and some thin brass and you too can build a pinhole camera. He has a nice bit on how to accurately measure the pinhole to deduce the aperture so you can make good exposures.
Ikea Pinhole Camera
I love this, I had the same idea a while back but just haven’t finished the project.
Homemade 5×4 pinhole camera. Made from an Ikea plant pot. holder. The pinhole is made from a Coke can, the shutter is a tap washer. All the finihing materials found around the house. Also shown is the first 5×4 paper neg I made during the camera’s construction.
The camera’s aperture is f-256 so the images are pretty crisp and a film holder has been added to the design. Very cool what you can do with a bit of creative spirit.
[via ikea hacker]
Cardboard Robot Halloween Costume of Doom
In 2004 I ended up having some time on my hands about three days before a big Halloween party. I did what anyone would do, I built robot costume out of cardboard boxes and dryer hose.
Sorry the photos aren’t better, for some weird reason I had set my camera on super low file size. I wish I had taken more shots of the build but I was trying to meet a deadline.
The whole thing was bonded together with tape (clear packing and gaffers), hot glue, and lots of brass paper brads. I used dryer hose for the arms and as it had to fit up to my shoulders I clipped the wires in them for about eight inches on the inside at the tops and covered them with some gaffers tape so I wouldn’t get poked. I tied them together with two short sections of rope,one across my chest and the other on my back. This kept the sleeves from coming off and falling to my wrists. I added some cardboard cuffs to hide the claw interface.
The claws were made from heavy tag board and regular corrugated cardboard. I wore them like mittens and my fingers ran through some cardboard loops on the inside so I could operate them. The hinges were paper brads.
I wanted rivets on my robot so I used about two boxes of brads all over the thing. They worked real well as surface detail and as actual mechanical reinforcements. I ran tape on the backside to avoid the sharp ends.
The name badge was simply an old LED chaser badge that I had built in the late 80’s. I mounted it to the costume with hot glue. I added some details like the chest logo and the static bag eyes after I slathered on a few coats of this water based gray paint I found at Home Depot.
The costume was a success, after the party I went trick or treating with my kids and I can’t tell you how many comments I got from kids and parents alike.
For more photos of my costume, got have a look at the photos on Flickr.
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