How Holograms are made
Great video showing how holograms are made. Lasers make everything cool. 🙂
Crazy Hacks
Toxic Barrel Pop-Up
You can either make this toxic barrel pop-up or purchase it from the designer. “Industrial air cylinder will be driven by pneumatic valve plumbed to 25psi compressed air. Attachment to PVC cap to hold lid in place. PVC goes through center of styrofoam head with caps on both ends to hold head in place. I detailed the mask with glow-in-the-dark paints to highlight it under blacklight illumination. Final assembly with
Atari Jaguar Portable
On the look for a new project? Why not take an old console gaming system and make it portable. That is exactly what Ben Heckendorn did with the old Jaguar console. “First off the cartridge slot had to be moved. There’s been several projects like this where I haven’t bothered to change the cartridge slot (SNES portable, Neo Geo) but this I swore I would. Using solder braid for the
Waldic – Water Cooled Laptop
Bard Johansen from Norway didn’t want a loud cooling fan operating while his laptop was playing movies. How can this be solved? Install a Waldic (water & air laptop direct input cooler). On a side note, have a look at the last picture… If anyone has a Toshiba L10 laptop screen that they are not needing drop Bard a line. “The bottom copper part is the business end of this
Popup Tombstone
This tombstone breaks in half and is sure to scare the neighborhood ghosts and goblins. “This project involves a hollow tombstone that has a seamless crack that when the pneumatic cylinder is activated the tombstone will break open reveling a creature inside. What’s good about this project is that all the mechanics are concealed inside and from the outside it looks like just a regular tombstone. This is a
Floppy Drive Pan Cam
Milan Gajic has made a cool Web controlled floppy drive powered pan cam. Some simple right and left commands on this page allow anyone on the net to have the floppy drive move the camera around to get look out of Milan’s window. Note: It seems that the cam only works with Internet Explorer at this time. “The goal of the game was to make a webcam panning unit
Twenty Dollar Halloween Prop
How may of us could build this prop for $20.00? I have lots of parts laying around from old projects, but one trip to Home Depot and my budget would be blown… “This is “Wilfred”, my contest entry. He is a full sized animatronic greeter for my haunt. He is made entirely from ordinary objects anyone can obtain, and is made for just under $20!! What did Prop builders