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Halloween is getting closer and closer and you are planning that Halloween get-together… Looking for the perfect DIY Halloween decoration projects?<\/p>\n
What party would be complete without a moving eyeball picture?\u00a0Haywired: Pointless (yet awesome) Projects for the Electronically Inclined<\/em><\/a> will help you make one! Pick out a picture of your favorite monster, zombie or ghoul –\u00a0the parts and tool lists, step-by-step photos, schematics and concise directions will help you create your very own moving eyeball picture!! Perhaps you would also like to have one that smiles when someone approaches it?\u00a0Haywired<\/em> will show you how to make one! The example they show is of the Mona Lisa, but you can easily adapt it to a ghoul or monster with a toothless grin! Are you into paper projects? Learn to make a light-up paper cat with\u00a0Paper Inventions : Machines That Move, Drawings That Light Up, Wearables and Structures You Can Cut, Fold, and Rol<\/a>l.\u00a0<\/em>The perfect time of year to make a black cat (or several!) to light up your Halloween party walls! It uses very few materials – construction paper, permanent marker, copper or aluminum foil tape, CR2032 coin battery, LED and a small binder clip! It will also show you how to create blinking and flickering effects for even more eerie decorations!<\/p>\n Interested in coming up with your own spooky decoration ideas? Don’t forget to check out what we have in our Tool Library<\/a>!! We have Lilypad for making wearable tech (think of the costume you could make!), a MaKey MaKey kit – create a keyboard using a pumpkin and Hersey Kisses!<\/a> Play around with the littleBits to come up with some fun circuit projects – and there is always the Raspberry Pi Starter Kit, too!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For 10 more last-minute Halloween decorations, check out makezine.com<\/a>.\u00a0Spider-web balloons, packing tape ghosts, and a meat head…. Because what’s a Halloween party without an edible head….<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n With a MaKey MaKey (available in our Tool Library)\u00a0you can make some small pumpkins (or gourds) scream!<\/p>\n<\/a>Looking for a classic scary pumpkin? How about one that lights up?\u00a0Electronic Projects for Dummies<\/em><\/a> will help you create the perfect scary pumpkins! You’ll end up with\u00a02 pumpkins – one transmits an infrared beam and the second one lights up and plays a prerecorded message or sound. When someone walks between the two pumpkins and breaks the plane of the infrared beam, the 2nd<\/sup> pumpkin will light up and emit that evil laugh! \u00a0The chapter,\u00a0Scary Pumpkins<\/em>, takes you through the process, step-by-step, \u00a0complete with schematics, photos (some in color), parts list and detailed instructions!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n