The first step to making great Halloween costumes is collecting great costume parts. Here, Pres. Dave is seen climbing
through the garbage, collecting old boxes. Fortunately, campus dumpsters are often fraught with discarded packing materials
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It had rained earlier that day, so the bottoms of most of the boxes were soaked. Luckily, we had access to a heat gun.
Remember kids, that the heat gun is hot. Do not keep it pointed at one place for too long, or else you will start a fire.
Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of that.
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The next step in costume construction is painting. I know it looks like everyone is just standing around, but they are really
performing a necessary function in the painting process. Okay, they really are just standing around.
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Here's a nice action shot. The box Lara is painting will eventually become the body for Pres. David's costume. The box
Jessica's painting will become the head of her costume.
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Here is another nice "painting" picture. Will is painting David's body, while Lara is painting David's head. All this time,
where is Pres. David?
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Many people stopped by on their way into (or out of) Workman. They were all more than willing to join the fun.
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Here's pretty arial shot of our work. Notice that we used cardboard to protect the concrete. Actually, one of those is the
body for my costume. Pres. David didn't allow anyone else to work on their costumes until his was done.
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Things started getting really wierd after a couple hours of painting. Here, David is introducing us to his imaginary giant
rabbit friend.
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We now skip ahead to the actual construction phase of our adventure. We had to cut out head and arm holes in our costumes. We
were having so much fun making Jessica's, that we forgot to get any pictures of the actual process. Isn't that just a
stunning costume?
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Marking and cutting the boxes was tedious and time consuming. In this foto, Will is marking the hole for the bottom of the
box, while David directs him.
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In lieu of a compass, we used a pair of scissors to mark circles for the head and arm holes. Here, I am measuring the radius
of David's head for his costume's head hole.
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Jessica and David, modeling their nearly completed robot costumes. Note that Jessica had no idea she was in this foto -- the
eye holes for her costume had yet to be cut out.
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We skip ahead to the Tuesday before Halloween (through the magic of time-lapse photography). We had to get together to
complete construction.
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Jessica decided to make labels to put on each individual piece of candy -- we had two three-pound bags of candy to give out.
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David Kadjo decided not to make a costume, but he did help. He happily shook the spray cans for us.
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This is a group foto of our (mostly) completed robot costumes. Lara had yet to complete the body for her costume.
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żEver wonder what was inside robot heads? Now you know: people heads.
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President David instructed us all on how not to use a Dremel.
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Lara decided to "accessorize" her costume with nice little shoulder pads.
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I started construction on a couple more robot costumes. Robot building is fun.
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The box I am modeling in this picture will eventually become the body for Scott-bot.
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Meet the NMTRC Halloween costumes. From left to right, they are: Lara-bot, Carebot, Hector-bot, Will-bot, Josh-bot, and
Jessica-bot. David was the only one creative enough to name his costume.
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That night Scott and I began work on Scott-bot. Scott decided to one-up everyone and added legs to his robot costume.
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Duct tape fixes everything -- even robots. In this foto, Scott is constructing the knees for his costume.
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Scott had to test-run his creation. By this time, it is already Halloween morning (1 am) so it was not at all strange to see
people walking around in boxes.
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Scott modeled his fully constructed costume. A few minutes later, we realized that we had yet to paint his costume.
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We decided to paint his costume in formalwear. Scott would later wear his costume to a Halloween event hosted by Ballroom
Dance.
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From left to right: Hector-bot, Scott-bot, and Josh-bot. These were the costumes of Apartment 203. We are better than you.
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The next day (Halloween), we wore our costumes to class. Unfortunately for me, I could not fit in a desk while wearing my
costume.
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Robot traffic jam. Our obstacle avoidance algorithms failed us on many ocassions.
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We went from building to building giving away candy to everyone as an NMTRC promotional thing. The sign David is holding
reads, "Free candy, courtesy of NMTRC." We had to make signs because too many people thought we were trick-or-treating.
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David and Lara made friends with an ATM.
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Why give it away when you could sell it?
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food good. Here, Care-bot stops to consume some of the candy we so desparately were trying to give away.
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And there you have it. Fun, fun, fun -- or some semblance of it -- at NMTRC
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