HOWTO make a Cylon pumpkin

Posted by David Pescovitz, October 24, 2008 11:36 AM | permalink

The latest MAKE: Weekend Project video guides you in the creation of an old-school Battlestar Galactica Cylon pumpkin complete with the scanning LED eye.
Cylon Jack O' Lantern

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#1 posted by skramble , October 24, 2008 11:53 AM

could you call that a Cyl O'Lantern?

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#2 posted by Jerril , October 24, 2008 12:03 PM

That's an old Halloween project from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.

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#3 posted by groovehouse , October 24, 2008 12:07 PM

Old school Cylon!! Righteous!

Someone make a Daggett pumpkin! LOL!

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#4 posted by dbarak , October 24, 2008 12:40 PM

Call me sick, but this is the first thing I thought of when I saw that...

http://mikeresponts.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/john-wayne-gacy.jpg

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#5 posted by EH , October 24, 2008 12:43 PM

Sorry, but this is half-assed.

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#6 posted by travelina

, October 24, 2008 12:53 PM

Here's a Predator pumpkin too, as well as detailed instructions for the obligatory Death Star pumpkin:
http://io9.com/5068026/science-fictions-great-villains-immortalized-in-pumpkin-flesh

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#7 posted by OM

, October 24, 2008 1:49 PM

...Can you give us a MAKE article on using an inflatable love doll to make a *new* model Cylon pumpkin? ;-)

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#8 posted by abq halsey , October 24, 2008 3:39 PM

CY-LOL WUT?

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#9 posted by Anonymous , October 25, 2008 11:18 PM

You could do it without... tools, by purchasing a bicycle tail light that can ping pong it's lit LED back and forth (not an uncommon ability in such lights, but also not universal..

It would not have a cool trail off effect though.