Minecraft Creeper Jack-o-Lanterns are Halloween Perfection

Posted on 07/10/2016 by Shane McGlaun

Not too long ago, I stopped by a farmer’s market. The variety of pumpkins they had was astounding. I didn’t see any green pumpkins though, and I really need one if I’m going to carve myself a Creeper pumpkin.

Creepers are one of the bad guys from Minecraft and the blocky design wouldn’t be hard to carve at all. Brenda over at AlphaMom carved up a couple of Creeper pumpkins, as well as some acorn squash and eight ball zucchini. That latter vegetable is something I have never heard of.

If you can’t find green pumpkins, I suppose you could always use paint and cover your plain orange pumpkin in green.

Check out These Awesome Halloween Pumpkins!

Posted on 31/10/2014 by Shane McGlaun

Halloween is here, and tonight kids across the country (and more than a few adults) will be out trick-or-treating and partying. One of our favorite things around here each Halloween is looking at the cool pumpkins that people carve up, and we have already seen some cool pumpkins in 2014.

Check out our latest round of pumpkins for Halloween 2014. One of my favorite is the pumpkin with the Oculus Rift on its face and pumpkin guts puked all over the floor. There are also some very complex pumpkins; my favorite is the Predator head. I also really like the Minecraft pumpkin, it’s simple but really, really cool.

I also like the one the dude is holding in the air by the stem, it looks like a severed head. Which of these is your favorite pumpkin?

[via Kotaku]

Jack-o-‘lantern with Arduino-powered Eyes: Open Scares

Posted on 29/10/2014 by Lambert Varias

Looking for a geeky twist for your Halloween decorations? Michal Janyst is onto something. He used two 8×8 LED modules and an Arduino Nano to give his jack-o’-lantern a pair of animated eyes.

Here’s Michal’s crazy-eyed pumpkin:

Ride a broom to Michal’s blog for the parts list, schematics and links to the software and code you need to emulate his hack. You might want to combine it with this wide-mouthed pumpkin hack to make it more unique.

[via Prosthetic Knowledge]

The Sun is a Giant Jack-o-Lantern

Posted on 16/10/2014 by Shane McGlaun

If you ever want to see some cool pictures of stuff in space, NASA and its massive photo archives should be the first place you stop. NASA has pictures of just about anything you can imagine. One of the coolest images I have seen yet from the space agency comes in the form of this image of the Sun.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory snapped an image on October 8 that shows the Sun in full jack-o-lantern mode. You can clearly see two evil eyes, a nose, a mouth, and even some ears on the side of the sun.

“Active regions on the sun combined to look something like a solar jack-o’-lantern’s face,” said Joe Witte of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

“The active regions in this image appear brighter because those are areas that emit more light and energy,” explained Witte. “This image blends together two sets of extreme ultraviolet wavelengths.”

You can grab the full hi-res version of the image here.

[via CNN]

Geeky Jack-o-Lanterns: Some Truly Smashing Pumpkins

Posted on 10/10/2014 by Shane McGlaun

Each year around Halloween, we see some really cool and geeky pumpkins that people are carving. Today I found a few carved pumpkins that will make the geek in you smile. My favorite is the first photo you see here, the Cylon.

This bad boy is from the original ’80s Battlestar Galactica series, not the remake from a few years back. What makes it great is the red eyeball that moves back and forth. The next pumpkin sounds too complicated for a lazy decorator like myself.

It’s the gamer pumpkin and the stem is a controller that lets you play Tetris on your Jack-o-Lantern. The final pumpkin isn’t so much a pumpkin as it is a collection of them. Check out the dinosaurs made from a hoard of pumpkins, they are awesome.

[via Littlebits]

Halloween Pumpkin Defines 21st Century Horror

Posted on 31/10/2013 by Lambert Varias

Most Halloween pumpkin carvings nowadays don’t even try to spook people anymore, instead presenting geeky or pop culture references. Then again, it’s not like the default jack-o’-lantern’s face is scary anyway.

Comedienne Megan MacKay knows how to spook today’s trick or treaters:

Nooooooooooooo

[via Megan MacKay via Foodbeast via Incredible Things]

Halloween Jack-O’-Lantern Sent 30 Kilometers into the Sky

Posted on 26/10/2013 by Shane McGlaun

I love it when people attach things like smartphones and cameras to the bottom of helium balloons and launch them into the atmosphere. A man and his grandson have carved a Halloween pumpkin named Patches and attached the pumpkin to the bottom of a giant helium balloon.

Along with the pumpkin, grandpa also attached a camera to record the pumpkin’s journey through the stratosphere. The man used a 1600 g balloon that was filled with 3.5 m³ of helium. That giant helium balloon was attached to a platform that held the pumpkin and a camera to record the trip. Jump to about one minute into the video to see the pumpkin head to the heavens.

On the coolest things about this video is that you can see ice form on Patches the pumpkin as it travels through the ice cold atmosphere. The pumpkin reportedly encountered temperatures as low as -20°C and accelerated at a rate of 5 m/s when let go. The pumpkin reached an altitude of 30 km before the balloon burst with Patches and the camera returning to Earth using a five-foot diameter parachute. You have to check out the video for yourself and be warned the video is a bit of a commercial for the TOP Fruit Hub app, but my eight-year-old daughter assures me the video is awesome.

Awesome Zombie Jack-o’-Lanterns: The Carving Dead

Posted on 04/10/2013 by Shane McGlaun

With October here, Halloween is nearly upon us and it’s high time that you get to carving your geeky jack-o’-lantern. This year we ran across some really cool zombie-themed pumpkins and some of them are downright creepy.

One of the things I like about these carvings is that they all appear to be made exclusively from pumpkins. I can only imagine how long it took to carve some of these, particularly the heavily detailed faces of some in the pictures in the gallery.

I think the creepiest is the pumpkin that is turned on its side. It looks like some sort of demented zombie piranha. I also particularly like the one that’s carved to look like a zombie hanging from the end of a noose. The detail work on that carving is incredible. Which one is your favorite?

[via Coolpumpkindesigns]

Holy Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! Tetris ported to a jack-o’-lantern (video)

Posted on 30/10/2012 by Mark Hearn

What happens when you gut a pumpkin and replace its insides with heat-shrink tubing, solder, 128 LEDs, eight AA batteries, an Arduino board and clever programming? You get what self-proclaimed tinkerer Nathan Pryor calls "Pumpktris." Over the years we've seen the classic puzzle game Tetris ported to some amazing things, but a piece of fruit? Just in time for Halloween, this high-tech spin on the jack-o'-lantern features a fully playable Tetris game controlled from the pumpkin's joystick stem. Whether you're a hardcore do-it-yourselfer, or a diehard Tetris fan hoping to top the system's high score (9,800 points), you can build your very own Pumpktris. Of course, its creator estimates it'll take around 12 hours or longer to build the custom LED matrix and joystem and carve up the gourd of your choice. If you're up to the challenge, you can find a complete walkthrough of the project at the source link below. However, if you'd just like to see this quasi-organic gaming rig in action, check out the groovy video after the break.

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The Deliciously Geeky Portal Pumpkin

Posted on 11/10/2012 by Federico Lo Giudice

Portal is one of the greatest things that happened to the gaming landscape in a few years, and as such, deserving of all the love fans give it. Now, one of those loving fans has created an incredible piece featuring one of the turrets seen in the test chambers of ...
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