[AndyGadget] built a haunted box as part of his Halloween preparations. This follows in the footsteps of the Knock Block we saw earlier this month but makes several hardware changes. He's replaced the solenoid with a DC motor that rotates an arm to do the knocking. He's avoided any CNC work by using a softwood box from a craft store as the enclosure. For control circuitry he's used an 8-pin PICAXE … [Read more...]