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Ok, it's 10 o'clock at night, too early for bed, and boy, I'd love to be able to see through walls, because my neighbours are making one hell of a racket... I know, I'll make a magic eye, a MAD MAGIC EYE. (big sigh) At the risk of looking like a complete Harry Potter nut (it's the kids, not me; honest guv...) I'll risk posting one more Harry Potter type project.
This one is really easy and looks absolutely wicked. I was able to finish it by midnight and that included designing it as I went along and taking the photos, so I reckon you could probably make this in less than an hour... if you have the stuff to hand, that is.
Mad Eye Moody was one of my favourite Harry Potter characters. Brusque but brutally honest, tough and resourceful, with a compassionate side, he is the wizarding world's best known cyborg as a result of his prosthetic magical eye which can rotate 360 degrees and see through almost everything (including walls, doors, invisibility cloaks and the back of his own head), hence the nickname "Mad-Eye".
Please take a moment to make this mad eye, in his honour and wear it with pride. Unfortunately my mad eye, while looking the part, actually impedes your vision, being more of a patch than a bionic eye, becuase the whole magical thing was beyond the scope of this instructable.
Happy mad eye making.
If you like making stuff from junk, then why not have a look at my site dadcando where you'll find a few really nice making from junk projects on there which you should have fun with.
Also look out for my instructable on putting your self in the picture, where I show you how I made my final poster image (coming soon).
This one is really easy and looks absolutely wicked. I was able to finish it by midnight and that included designing it as I went along and taking the photos, so I reckon you could probably make this in less than an hour... if you have the stuff to hand, that is.
Mad Eye Moody was one of my favourite Harry Potter characters. Brusque but brutally honest, tough and resourceful, with a compassionate side, he is the wizarding world's best known cyborg as a result of his prosthetic magical eye which can rotate 360 degrees and see through almost everything (including walls, doors, invisibility cloaks and the back of his own head), hence the nickname "Mad-Eye".
Please take a moment to make this mad eye, in his honour and wear it with pride. Unfortunately my mad eye, while looking the part, actually impedes your vision, being more of a patch than a bionic eye, becuase the whole magical thing was beyond the scope of this instructable.
Happy mad eye making.
If you like making stuff from junk, then why not have a look at my site dadcando where you'll find a few really nice making from junk projects on there which you should have fun with.
Also look out for my instructable on putting your self in the picture, where I show you how I made my final poster image (coming soon).
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You don't need much to make the Mad Eye. Becuase this is a project made out of junk, you might have to be inventive, I have given a few alternatives. I used:
Table Tennis Ball (eye)
Old leather watch Strap
Strip of fabric from an old pair of trousers
A screw
A bottle lid (from a 4 pint milk poly-bottle)
Some velcro (hook and eye fastener strip) from an old piece of clothing.
If any of these are not to hand, as alternatives, try:
An under-arm deodorant ball roller for the eye (take care hack sawing it in half, they are strong)
An old handbag or laptop bag strap (check with owner first!) leather is best
A buckle instead of velcro (from the bag strap or watch strap)
And that is it, so easy really, you will find the following equipment useful:
Pencil
Permanent Marker
Craft knife (or scalpel)
Glue Gun (or very rapid two part epoxy)
Scissors
Gold paint (or gold nail varnish or spray or rub n' buff)
Blue and white paint (or felt tip pens) (you will need white if you use a deodorant ball)
Table Tennis Ball (eye)
Old leather watch Strap
Strip of fabric from an old pair of trousers
A screw
A bottle lid (from a 4 pint milk poly-bottle)
Some velcro (hook and eye fastener strip) from an old piece of clothing.
If any of these are not to hand, as alternatives, try:
An under-arm deodorant ball roller for the eye (take care hack sawing it in half, they are strong)
An old handbag or laptop bag strap (check with owner first!) leather is best
A buckle instead of velcro (from the bag strap or watch strap)
And that is it, so easy really, you will find the following equipment useful:
Pencil
Permanent Marker
Craft knife (or scalpel)
Glue Gun (or very rapid two part epoxy)
Scissors
Gold paint (or gold nail varnish or spray or rub n' buff)
Blue and white paint (or felt tip pens) (you will need white if you use a deodorant ball)
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I couldn't get my hands on a table tennis ball, so instead I used a mini-ball ornament from an old mini Christmas tree and, just painting it white, worked just as well. A little substitution for those of us who can't find table tennis balls, ha ha. I used those little circles of velcro to make it adjustable to fit different head sizes, because I didn't know the exact size of his head. So that's something else to think about, if its for someone besides yourself, like an adjustable ball cap.
This was surprisingly easy to make. The hardest part was painting the eye, in my opinion, because I am a horrible painter/drawer.
Fantastic project! Thank you for posting it!!!
I'll never tell anyone how to run their site though. Especially mad-eye.
I want to poke that eye with my finger so bad, haha.
Steven
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Compare all that with making something and actually asking someone else to pay for it, and only pay a tiny amount to get access to three years of work and ideas. After all, I work and someone pays me for my work is the basis of all human enterprise. I think that web advertising and the idea that it is possible to make money for free (basically) has provided the possibility of a huge explosion of web sites, but in reality the ones that will tough out over the next few years who are not making any money, will either be those which do not use the web revenue as their core revenue (ie they have a shop or are a charity, or some other business) or for people who just want to publish in a small way and don't need to make money out of it, i.e. they have a day job. The rest wil perish. and that will include You Tube unless a way can be found to make it make money.
And I'll leave you with one last thought... if we had to pay a few pence for each email (a bit like SMS texting) we sent, then there would bespam and no intrusive and dangerous scamming on the web (because it would cost them too much to do) and the web would be about 1000 times faster, cleaner and better, and your in box wouldn't be full of spam. Free is nice, but I have come to know that nothing and i mean absolutely nothing in life comes with out a cost, although I'm sure now that 100s of people will give me examples of free stuff.