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Haloween Arcade Post! Custom controller!
« on: October 31, 2013, 07:23:21 am »


Yeah, not much to say after you make a Jack-o-lantern arcade controller
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Re: Haloween Arcade Post! Custom controller!
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2013, 10:12:49 am »
Here was this year's Halloween project.  It worked shockingly well as a pumpkin carver. 



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Re: Haloween Arcade Post! Custom controller!
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2013, 05:13:08 pm »
Anybody else get the notion that pbj is a dumpster divin' macgyver?
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Re: Haloween Arcade Post! Custom controller!
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2013, 07:17:15 pm »
I have been using that same set up for years only I took a grinder to the back side of the jigsaw blade to make it more narrow.
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Re: Haloween Arcade Post! Custom controller!
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2013, 07:35:22 pm »
That is just freaking genius.  I feel stupid and humbled in the presence of such creativity.

No, I am not being sarcastic.  This board makes me feel like such an idiot sometimes.  Why didn't I think of that?!
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Re: Haloween Arcade Post! Custom controller!
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2013, 09:54:39 am »
Well, I've been reusing the same set of cheapies because it got left behind in a rental and my mother in law insisted I take it home while I was helping her clean it out.  After you fly something 3,000 miles you feel compelled to use it.  After three years of service, they fell apart halfway through the carving. 

The hacksaw blade works so well I'm kind of ashamed I didn't think of it sooner.  Matt's idea looks like something you could occasionally use for something else, too.

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Re: Haloween Arcade Post! Custom controller!
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2013, 10:07:41 am »
Pretty much had the same project this year for cutting blade. Used a pex pipe crimp to hold the jigsaw blade in the slit I made in the dowel.
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Re: Haloween Arcade Post! Custom controller!
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2013, 10:24:54 am »
I used a dremel with a spiral cutting bit last time I carved a pumpkin.
It works awesome, just don't let it get away from you.

It was a skeleton hand with it's middle finger extended.  It was directed at the the guy across the street.   :lol
I did turn it around and put the side with the finger against the house on trick or treating night.
I'll see if I can find the pic.  It looked awesome.
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Re: Haloween Arcade Post! Custom controller!
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2013, 10:31:25 am »
A Dremel! Oh, I am so doing that next year!
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Re: Haloween Arcade Post! Custom controller!
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2013, 05:05:09 pm »
Quote from: lcmgadgets on November 01, 2013, 10:31:25 am
A Dremel! Oh, I am so doing that next year!
Why wait? You can get pumpkins dirt cheap right now.
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Re: Haloween Arcade Post! Custom controller!
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2013, 06:06:09 pm »
Quote from: matt4949 on November 01, 2013, 05:05:09 pm
Quote from: lcmgadgets on November 01, 2013, 10:31:25 am
A Dremel! Oh, I am so doing that next year!
Why wait? You can get pumpkins dirt cheap right now.

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Re: Haloween Arcade Post! Custom controller!
« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2013, 06:27:58 pm »
Just bumping a happier thread :)
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