Whats this article about? No clue. I was playing with the HiDef camera, a marble rollercoaster kit my wife got years ago, my kids, and iMovie…
We got a new Fake (pre-lit, three piece, quick assembling!) X-mas tree this year. When the time came to place the star on top, I discovered there was no mathematical way possible to make it stay put up top.
So I grabbed the calipers and a sheet of paper:
Tags: aluminum, lathe, trig, trigonometry
It’s that time again, time for Hauntiholik’s favorite night: Halloween!
Only this time, It’s in Hi Def, 1080p! (You really REALLY want to view it full screen with the little ‘HD’ button depressed.)
2
Nov
Halloween 2009 pics
In a rush to get the proof to the presses, here’s some photos from our latest, greatest, Halloween Exploits!
10
Oct
Sled gets a new hat
Very soon after I started hotrodding the RocketSled, I found it was too fast to pass tech. Folk’ll cheat thinking tech is something that’s more a pain in the ass than anything else. I disagree. The rules are there to keep you intact incase you run out of talent before you run out of turn. Read the rest of this entry »
16
Aug
Bzzt, part 2
More furious halloween prop making (pushing the HD button is recommended):
11
Aug
OneOffs: Harbor Freight
toystore for guys.
We’re working on Halloween props. (less than 80 days remaining!) And it occurs to me that an odd fiddly site should talk about the things that make odd fiddly things. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: halloween, Harbor Freight, kits, sander, saw
A number of completely disparate events brought me to this feature. Michael Jackson dieing had me digging into my MP3 archives for an album or two. This is not about him. (Of course, it can’t hurt me in the Google rankings either. 
) A year ago, the wife bought a turntable, with the intent of turning it into a halloween prop. And I ran across a box with a half dozen records in it this afternoon. My son asked if any of them were ‘Michael Jackson’, and sure enough, Thriller’s in there. Read the rest of this entry »