The Halloween Blog

Instructibles has a pretty cool how to on building a nice looking Ghostbusters costume.

Aranamuerta.com has a very creative and well written howto for making scary witches kitchen jars.

I think the large HobGoblin Brains jar and the Dragon Embryos are my favorites. She covers making the inside of the jars as well as authentic looking labels and twine wrapped lids. Well thought out with awesome ideas and plenty of pictures.

As I’ve mentioned in another post, last year’s costume was a Zombie Santa Snow Globe. There were a few problems with the snow globe and most of them stemmed from bad decisions, poor planning, and a complete lack of testing. Oh, and some near asphyxiation.

This year I’m taking my power and air requirements seriously and I started planning this about 3 months ago. I wanted a solution that could easily be adapted to future costumes and I think I’ve come up with one that will work.

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I finished t’ motor controller and blower for me costume and posted some pictures t’ Flickr. I’ll wait til tomorrow when I don’t have t’ talk like a pirate t’ post all t’ gory details and sources. Arrrr.

No costume is complete without an electric motor and the subsequent risk of fire, electrocution, noxious smoke, and/or embarrassing failure.

In my Snow Globe costume from last year I discovered the importance of power and power management. I didn’t fully test my costume and ran out of batteries about half way through the contest. Fortunately the judges were sufficiently impressed that I still won, but had they died mid performance the results would have been much less lucrative.

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