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Step 4Stuff I didn't have time to add
These are the things that I really wish that I could have added. A lot of these things I had mostly finished but not quite enough time to incorporate into the final haunted house.
- Animatronic pumpkin- I'm not going to say a lot about this because there is a great instructable on how to do this: Halloween Animatronics , but I am going to add a few things to what they did. Please skim their instructable before reading this. The pumpkin they used was completely foam, but the one I found was hollow. What I did was hot glue a piece of cardboard to the top and bottom pieces. This actually ended up working fine. I made a last minute hinge out of a piece of wire mesh fencing type stuff and taping it to the pumpkin with aluminum tape. Aluminum tape is basically aluminum foil with really sticky adhesive. I found that there was a lot of weight being put on the servo so I made pedestals out of toothpicks so that the servo wouldn't make noise unless it was moving. I would have had to tape the entire thing to whatever table I put it on because its top heavy when the servo is up and falls over. I used the usb parallax 16 channel servo controller (now called Propeller Servo Conroller USB) and ran Windows on my Macbook using Virtualbox which is desktop virtualization software that is free! I didn't have time to incorporate this because I didn't have time to make a sequence for the pumpkin.
- Sound Activated Skull- This is pretty much exactly the same as the BONEfones Instructable except for the fact that mine stopped working a couple days before halloween. Please skim the BONEfones Instructable before reading this. I had mine all working. It was soldered up on perf board and was connected to 3v of power from a 300-in-1 kit. It had been working flawlessly in that configuration until I connected it to a battery pack with 3v. I plugged it into music and immediately the right eye LED blew out. That was the end of that project because it looked bad with just one eye working. I couldn't replace it because the eye had the led built in and glued in. I realized that the problem was that the LEDs were cheap ones that required a resistor and I had not put one in. If you do this remember to put a resistor on the negative line before it gets to the LEDs. Oh well.
- Motion activated scary thing- I did not actually make this, but it is a cool idea and there's always next year. You could use an Arduino and one of those motion sensors from radio shack to activated something scary like dropping a spider or setting off a boom stick. Or you could use a Ping))) to make maniacal laughter get louder when you get closer to the door. This year I'm planning on making a shaking trash can that is motion activated. I'll probably post an instructable on that at some point.
I will update this last step when I think of more things.
Thanks for reading my instructable!
- Animatronic pumpkin- I'm not going to say a lot about this because there is a great instructable on how to do this: Halloween Animatronics , but I am going to add a few things to what they did. Please skim their instructable before reading this. The pumpkin they used was completely foam, but the one I found was hollow. What I did was hot glue a piece of cardboard to the top and bottom pieces. This actually ended up working fine. I made a last minute hinge out of a piece of wire mesh fencing type stuff and taping it to the pumpkin with aluminum tape. Aluminum tape is basically aluminum foil with really sticky adhesive. I found that there was a lot of weight being put on the servo so I made pedestals out of toothpicks so that the servo wouldn't make noise unless it was moving. I would have had to tape the entire thing to whatever table I put it on because its top heavy when the servo is up and falls over. I used the usb parallax 16 channel servo controller (now called Propeller Servo Conroller USB) and ran Windows on my Macbook using Virtualbox which is desktop virtualization software that is free! I didn't have time to incorporate this because I didn't have time to make a sequence for the pumpkin.
- Sound Activated Skull- This is pretty much exactly the same as the BONEfones Instructable except for the fact that mine stopped working a couple days before halloween. Please skim the BONEfones Instructable before reading this. I had mine all working. It was soldered up on perf board and was connected to 3v of power from a 300-in-1 kit. It had been working flawlessly in that configuration until I connected it to a battery pack with 3v. I plugged it into music and immediately the right eye LED blew out. That was the end of that project because it looked bad with just one eye working. I couldn't replace it because the eye had the led built in and glued in. I realized that the problem was that the LEDs were cheap ones that required a resistor and I had not put one in. If you do this remember to put a resistor on the negative line before it gets to the LEDs. Oh well.
- Motion activated scary thing- I did not actually make this, but it is a cool idea and there's always next year. You could use an Arduino and one of those motion sensors from radio shack to activated something scary like dropping a spider or setting off a boom stick. Or you could use a Ping))) to make maniacal laughter get louder when you get closer to the door. This year I'm planning on making a shaking trash can that is motion activated. I'll probably post an instructable on that at some point.
I will update this last step when I think of more things.
Thanks for reading my instructable!
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