Posted in Animation, Control, Electronics, Hacks, Haunting on Oct 28th, 2008
Gemmy skulls are great for hacking. Their jaws move, their eyes light up (and even move on some models), and best of all they’re cheap.
Right out of the box they’re not so impressive though. You trip the motion sensor and garbled noise comes out of the tiny speaker for a few seconds.
What’s it [...]
Posted in Control, Electronics, Hacks, Haunting on Oct 19th, 2008
Yard-light motion sensors are a cheap and easy way to add some automation to your haunt. Just hook up power to the sensor, hook the output to an outlet, and you can control anything that runs on 120VAC. But what if you want to control something else? It turns out it’s pretty [...]
This article explains some of the basics of pneumatics and goes on to show you how to build a grave popper.
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