I build prototypes.

I find that instead of thinking about / drawing ideas I have a much easier time developing solutions if I prototype devices I'm thinking about. I think in many ways this explains why I did so well in physics labs when I was an engineering major, but so horridly in the lecture/theory classes. I need to do.

For my pumpkins I've found that the Evil Mad Scientist Snap-o-lantern article really necessitated a flatish pumpkin. (Well, at least one that was less tall than wide.) My pumpkins are round. Tiny, but almost perfect circles.

So I've been developing other means to mechanize the jaw.

Here are some of the prototypes I've worked out (click the image to see a b&w animation of them in motion):