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Since I’m feeling festive evening, I thought I would leave you with some of our Halloween posts. OK, really I just can’t pass up a chance to put up these masks of Chen and Blam again. Happy Halloween everyone! • This Is Why You Shouldn’t Put Drunk Ewoks On Live TV • Next Year, I’m Time Travel Trick or Treating • Scientifically Haunted Room Shows That Ghosts Are Only In Your Head • Twelve Beautiful Jack-o’-Lanterns • Ghostbuster Proton Pack Uses Real Lasers, Can Probably Hunt Real Ghosts • 10 Of Your Geekiest Halloween Costumes • A Spider-Bot Pumpkin Is the Scariest Way To Dispense Candy On Halloween • Build The Spirit Radio That Creeped Out Tesla Himself • The iMac Cylon Mask Is Both Trick and Treat • “Working” Apple iPhone Read more ...
Technological News
Nov 1st
Oct 29th
If I wasn’t so worried about traumatizing the kids in my neighborhood, dispensing trick or treat candy in this creepy spider bot pumpkin would be awesome.
It runs C on an Axon microcontroller. It uses all digital servos and can lift over twice its body weight. The software (soon to be given out open source) allows for 6 synchronous degrees of motion. Future additions will include foot sensors and a remote control option.
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Oct 21st
Obviously any jack-o’-lantern has already been mutilated mercilessly by children with knives and ice cream scoops, but something about permanently sticking a $10 light-up sword in its head just feels like salt in the wound. [
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