Build Your Own Mac-O-Lantern

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Just because Jack-O-Lanterns come out only at Halloween doesnit mean they canit work as computer cases. If you have a spare Mac sitting around, you can give it a new home - at least for a few days - inside a Jack-O-Lantern.

This pumpkin PC started life as a Dell computer, but the step-by-step instructions will work just fine for a Mac, too.


The pumpkin PC.

The same group is working now on a Mac version of the computer-powered pumpkin.


The Mac-O-Lantern under construction.

If you have a Classic Mac handy, follow along with the Pumputer to see how to fit all of the Macis components, including its display, into a pumpkin.


The Mac Pumputer.
Jeff Gamet

Jeff Gamet

Jeff is the Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and co-host of the Apple Context Machine podcast. He is the author of "The Designer's Guide to Mac OS X" from Peachpit Press, and writes for several design-related publications. Jeff has presented at events such as Macworld Expo, the RSA Conference, and the Mac Computer Expo. In all his spare time, he also co-hosts the We Have Communicators podcast, and makes guest appearances on several other podcasts, too. Jeff dreams in HD.

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