Pumpkin Face Illusion

Posted by Johnny Cat in Arts & Crafts, Video Clips on October 23, 2009 at 3:50 pm

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Here’s a fine and seasonally-appropriate example of the Hollow Face Illusion, created by Tony Bailey.  Also in this category, Three Figurines is not to be missed!

via Mighty Optical Illusions

 
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10 Robot Jack-O-Lanterns

Posted by John Farrier in Arts & Crafts on October 13, 2009 at 4:11 pm


Photo: flickr user Ang & Nick

Botropolis (a robot-themed blog) has pictures of 10 Jack-O-Lanterns modeled to look like robots. Pictured above is Punk-O-Tron, a work by flickr user Ang & Nick. Others are inspired by Transformers, Star Wars, and Short Circuit.

Link via Gizmodo

 
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Pumpkin Cannon Fires Squash One Mile

Posted by John Farrier in Science & Tech, Video Clips on October 8, 2009 at 3:47 pm


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John Gill and Gary Arold of Hurley, New York built a compressed air cannon in 2006 that can fire a pumpkin (but they prefer squash as ammunition) up to a mile away. Adam Bosch writes in the Times Herald-Record:

The cannon is mostly used on weekends to attract people to Gill’s Farm Market on Route 209 in Hurley, but sometimes the guys get together at the 1,500-acre farm and blast it when nobody’s around. Just for fun.

They’ve shot pumpkins, scuba tanks and a basketball filled with corn and foam insulation. They once scattered some geese by accidentally shooting into the flock. Then there’s the time they shot a bowling ball more than a mile.

“The first time we shot a bowling ball, that’s was probably the worst thing we ever did,” Arold says. “It kept going and going and going.”

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The Rovin’ Pumpkin

Posted by Miss Cellania in Arts & Crafts, Gadget on October 7, 2009 at 9:34 pm

You may recall the Dalek Pumpkin from 2006, the Snap-o-Lantern from 2007, and the Dark Detecting Jack-o-Lantern from 2008. The fertile minds at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have announced their Halloween pumpkin project for 2009, and it’s a winner!

The Rovin’ Pumpkin’ is a simple robotic pumpkin, and a close cousin of the Snap-O-Lantern. Silently, it sits on your porch– camouflaged amongst the humble squashes.

After a minute, its green eyes start to glow, and it creeps… moving about one foot to the left… and stops. The eyes go dark again. It fades into the darkness. And it waits.

After several minutes and several steps, it reverses direction, and begins to creep the other way. Hopefully before it falls off of your porch.

The Rovin’ Pumpkin is made from Lego parts, a small motor, LEDs for eyes, and a pumpkin. Instructions and a video are included in the article. Link

 
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DIY Super Mario Multi LED Mushroom Pumpkin

Posted by Robert Birming in Home & Garden, Video Clips on October 29, 2007 at 9:59 am



Maybe you remember the Super Mario inspired Jack-o’-lantern. As a follow-up, here you can learn how to create your own Super Mario Brothers 1-up LED powered pumpkin.

Link [Metacafe] – via Boing Boing

 
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