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Neat Homebrew Halloween Tech?

Posted by Cliff on from the costumes-comprised-of-just-cloth-are-boring dept.

aibrahim asks: "I just saw a proton pack (alternate site) a friend has built. It made me wonder what other neat high tech things the Slashdot crowd might be brewing up for the coming holidays. What I am really after is stuff that one of you made, better yet would be diagrams or explanations of how you made it. Doesn't have to be a costume item, anything interesting that fits the season would do." This is a follow-up to the earlier article. So what are you dressing up as for Halloween, and how do you plan on making your costume interesting?

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  1. My Halloween Costume by Ummagumma · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is what I am going as for Halloween. I figure it will scare the hell outta anybody.

    --
    "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." - Thomas Jefferson
  2. Screw high-tech by blogan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get yourself a green t-shirt, a grey sweatshirt, some Robitussin and go as Ellen Feiss.

  3. Head on a platter by gentlewizard · · Score: 5, Funny

    For controlled environments (i.e., haunted houses) the head-on-a-platter gimmick is hard to beat for great reactions from the kids (and some parents!)

    Basically, you get a thin aluminum serving platter, the throwaway kind, and cut a neck-sized hole in the center (tape the edge with transparent tape to avoid cuts). Cut one slit from outer edge to the hole. You can easily bend the platter open to put it on someone, then fold it back flat and tape up the slit.

    Then get a board and cut a square notch into one of the long sides, about the middle. Put the board across some sawhorses. The person with the platter sits comfortably in a chair below table level, with the platter appearing to rest on the table. Throw a tablecloth over the whole thing and arrange eyeballs, worms, or whatever on the table.

    If you're the head, keep your eyes closed until someone is nearby and speculating about whether you're real or not. Then pop open your eyes wide and scream as if just noticing you have no body.

    When we did this one year, we picked up a ton of candy off the floor from kids who didn't stop to check what they'd lost! evil laugh