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Pumpkin Pi
Halloween is just around the corner, so it's no surprise that so many people's thoughts are turning to pumpkin carving. After all, at what other point during the year are knife skills so publicly applauded and carving so opening discussed? (Yes, yes, there's Thanksgiving if you really want to be pedantic about these things.)
With a week left before you find yourself inundated with trick-or-treaters, there's still time to juice up your traditional jack-o'-lanterns into something a little bit more impressive for scaring all-comers, ensuring that you get to keep all that candy for yourself. Here are 10 different technologically-enhanced pumpkins, from remote-controlled rainbow light lanterns to fire-breathing squash, to act as inspiration for your own experiments in creating a Borg O'Lantern.
Above: Pumpkin Pi
Anyone can have an old-school carved pumpkin powered by the antiquated light of a candle, but Brian Gillespie used the low cost Raspberry Pi single board computer to create a Jack o' Lantern that would flicker on and off, as if possessed by a particularly flashy demon who's leaning on the light switch. (Gillespie goes into some detail about the programming and construction of the pumpkin here).
Homepage art: Lisuebie/Flickr
