Hacky Thanksgiving
posted Nov 4th 2009 6:55am by Mike Szczysfiled under: roundup
Friends, pilgrims, send us your hacks. Most especially, your Thanksgiving hacks. We had a wonderful time over the past six weeks collecting and highlighting your Halloween props and now it’s on to the next holiday. Did you build your own deep fried turkey rig with some special features? How about that pie making robot you built for last year’s celebration? Can’t live without your twittering cornucopia? Document it and send it to our tip line! All Thanksgiving themed hacks will be considered but only the well documented and creative entries will be featured.
If you just joined us, here’s a roundup of the Halloween Props we encountered this year:
- Halloween props: Techy Jack-o-lanterns
- Halloween props: Servo eyes
- Halloween prop: glowing spooky eyes
- Shift powered pumpkins
- Animatronic winged demon terrorizes local garage
- A modular Halloween with grid beam
- Scare ‘em silly with a moving pumpkin
- Halloween prop: Bigmouth billy bass
- Halloween props: Low cost popup
- Quoth the Raven: hack some more
- Halloween prop: portable black light
- Halloween props: DMX controlled skeleton
- Halloween prop: the ground-breaker
- Piecax the Poltergeist reinvents the Knock Block
- Halloween props: Alien Costume
- Halloween Props: Pie of Sauron
- Halloween props: Skeleton springs from coffin
- Halloween prop: DIY fog machine
- Halloween props: flying crank ghost
disclaimer: boiling oil is dangerous, that’s why it used to be used for torture. Always consider your own safety!
[Turkey photo source]
Turning up the oven to “make it cook faster” doesn’t count.
Please pass the potatoes?