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LED Marquee Pumpkin Here's an LED marquee as the mouth of a Jack-o'-lantern which [Mike Skoczen] made. This comes hot on the heels of that playable Tetris Pumpkin. [Thanks Jacob] Arduino-powered robot costume This is a sideways view of the Arduino-powered costume [Dan] and his wife made for their son. It has lights, buttons, a character display, and makes noise. Cylon Centurion … [Read more...]
Capacitive touch plants Here's a proof of concept for using plants as a capacitive touch sensor. The sensor is simply a hunk of double-sided copper clad board attached to a microcontroller. But it seems to be able to sense what part of the plant is being touched. [Thanks Fabien] Adding wireless charging to a Nokia N900 This hack is quite common, but it's still fun to see what … [Read more...]
This Halloween table will sing a sweet serenade to spook your guests. Each of the animatronic pumpkins were quite easy to build, but you may end up spending a bit more time choreographing the performance. Inside each Jack-o-lantern you'll find a custom Arduino compatible board called a Minion board. These include a wireless connection which lets the system sync with the computer playing the … [Read more...]
Now we know why kids in this neighborhood wear plastic Halloween masks instead of just painting their faces. They're trying to protect themselves from the onslaught of hard candy spewing out the front of this candy chucking pumpkin. The mechanism operates very much like a baseball or football throwing device. Now that we think of it, it's also the same concept as the chicken launcher. There is … [Read more...]
This one would make a nice centerpiece for your Halloween party. It's a battery with tiny pumpkins serving as the cells. [EM Daniels] shows us how to clear out the pumpkins, fill them with some freshly mixed electrolyte, and he even throws in the directions for baking the pumpkin seeds. Each pumpkin will need a pair of conductors made of dissimilar metals to serve as the anode and cathode. … [Read more...]
What takes eight hours to solder and uses more shrink tubing that you thought imaginable? An LED matrix installed in a real pumpkin. When I mentioned that we'd like the LED pumpkin in last Friday's post scaled up to a full LED matrix I had no idea it would be me doing the work. But [Caleb] and I thought it might be just the thing to present for the hacker's favorite holiday. Installed in the … [Read more...]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories is preparing for Halloween with this standby-mode pumpkin. Inside there's an LED plugging a hole that is drilled just to the skin of the gourd-like vegetable. It fades in and out similar to a sleeping Mac, using what we think is a vastly over-powered circuit based on an ATtiny2313 (1k of programming space for this?). But we still like the idea and we'd enjoy … [Read more...]
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