Mac-O-Lanterns
introMac-O-Lanterns
This Halloween season, bring an old computer back from the dead. Here's
all you need to turn that dusty old Mac Classic into a glowing,
Halloween treat. Besides a working computer and a little technical
know-how (very little), all you need is three cans of spray paint and a
bit of epoxy. And here's the best part...no slimy guts to clean out!
step 1Paint the entire body orange.
Give your old Mac a nice cleaning and then mask off the screen with tape. We used clear shipping tape. For the painting, we used Krylon Fusion Pumpkin Orange spray paint. W…
step 2Paint the mouse brown for a stem.
We used Krylon Fusion Satin Espresso.
step 3Cut the keyboard cord into leaf and vine sections and paint them green.
We used Krylon Fusion Hunter Green.
step 4Let the paint dry completely.
Preferably overnight.
step 5Attach the mouse and cord pieces with epoxy.
Put a vine on each side of the stem.
step 6Create your face.
We made ours in Illustrator and then turned it into a JPEG through Photoshop. We had to dig around a bit, but we found an old external floppy drive and transferred the artw…
step 7Display your face.
We downloaded JPEGView from The Mac Orchard and have multiple faces rotating on the screen like a slide show. Feel free to add animation or bring sound into the mix. Here's…
| Oct 7, 2009. 3:07 PMlane29
says:
how dare u ruin a perfectly good apple
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| how dare u buy a mac in the first place... every one knows that windows
is waaaaaaay better ;)
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| Technically, if you get a new keyboard and mouse, it works fine..
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| Aug 1, 2009. 10:10 AMharpek
says:
*ADORABLE* I reposted this as a cool thing on my blog!
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| Dec 4, 2008. 10:19 AMFusebox (author)
says:
Not a dumb question. You will also need a mouse for turning it on and
off. We have extra mice so it's not a problem. You can get a USB/5-pin
adapter so you can use your current computer mouse for that purpose.
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| Ok, hope this isn't a dum-b question, but don't you need the mouse to
load/start JPEG View off the floppy? It's been many years, since I've
messed with JPV, so I can't remember...
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| Holy bejeebajabbers I didn't even notice that was the mouse until i
actualy read it....wierd.
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| Be careful that you do not accidentally use an old Mac that is valuable!
My brother almost killed an old rare Macintosh Plus that has all the
original creators signatures inside. AKA : Worth $$$$$!!!
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| I own a Macintosh plus with the signatures inside. They're in raised
plastic on the inside. How much would that be worth?
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| That I think, may be a duplicate, I am not sure though. My brother's Mac
Plus has a metal outside case (the top that slides off) with the
signatures engraved into it. Like with one of those hand held metal
etchers/engravers. Like you would use to engrave your name into your
water canteen. I heard some where that they are worth in the 10s of
1,000s of dollars. My brother found his at the hospital when he was
helping clean their storage area in boy scouts. They let him keep the
computer for doing the work. I will contact Apple Computers and find out
and info I can, I will post what they send me.
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| Cool instrucable, but where could i get one of these?
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| This is WAY freaking cute! I love that these little guys inspire so many
projects. i'll be linking to this in my next halloween Roundup.
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| i should do this to my laptop...
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| I live in australia where we don't practise devil worshipping in such a
way as Halloween.*
(we believe good old animal sacrifice)
anyway - cool Idea.
*yeah, I know halloween is a pagan ritual. just ragging on you.
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| Sep 9, 2008. 2:43 PMFusebox (author)
says:
Thanks for all the great feedback, everyone.
Due to popular demand, I have uploaded the JPEG faces onto my Flickr account
. Feel free to download and use.
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| Sep 26, 2008. 10:13 AMscs68
says:
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!
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| Anybody know where to get animated tools w/ sound. I am doing this to a
Classic II.
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| Sep 9, 2008. 1:17 PMscs68
says:
This is FANTASTIC! I'd like to try it on my old Mac, but I'm no artist.
Any chance you could post or email the jpegs?
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| thats is the best frekin thing i'v seen on here.
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| Apple pwns.
Apple pwns harder at Halloween [:
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| Jun 15, 2008. 12:59 PM =SMART=
says:
agreed
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| i think you could have done something much cooler with these old macs,
but i guess it is ok
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| I'm making this right now, shaking the spray paint can. Finally I have a
use for that old Mac SE shell in the garden shed after salvaging the parts.
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| Jun 19, 2008. 12:19 PM=SMART=
says:
my local stationers still sells floppy disks, the guy who runs it is a bit of a geek and i think he thinks its funny :D
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| This totally rocks, suddenly a Mac Classic goes from being an oversized
paperweight to being something really useful (useful being a fairly
loose term here)!
I'll have to convince my friend to do this to his Mac next year (since
I don't have one myself). Great job.
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| whoa I actually still have that computer!
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| How on earth did you find an external 3.5" drive?!?!?! (j/k Same
place you found the macs, I'm guessing :) )
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| Some of us geeks hold on to this stuff, or come across it at old yard
sales, eBay etc. then we hord it until the day comes when someone posts
an awesome hack for us to try out.
I cant wait to drag out my stuff and try this... so many cool things,
so little time
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| Cool. If only I could paint the Mac lab here orange for October.
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| That is bitchin'! I totally want one!!! And a pickle.
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| THAT WAS TOTALLY RADICAL DUDE!
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| Werent the vine cords supposed to be green?
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| I love that orange! It works really well on the comps.
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| Oct 30, 2007. 6:42 PMHonus
says:
A co worker of mine was just asking me today what he could do with an identical old Mac. :D
Very clever!
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| thats a high energy usage jack o lantern :-P but cool :-)!
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| Congratulations, you just won the internets :-)
i had an immediate chuckle :)
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| lol finally, a good use for a mac!!! lol
totally creative and nice instructable :)
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| Best part, IMO, is being able to throw it in the basement and bust it
out every year; unlike pumpkins that need to be replaced and recarved
every year.
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| Love the rotating face idea!
Very well done!
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| Oct 30, 2007. 2:01 PMtiuk
says:
Awesome idea.
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