Happy Halloween to one and all. Let’s celebrate the holiday with some related links.
[Brandon] carved the Hackaday logo into his Jack-‘o-Lantern. But that’s not all, inspired by EMSL’s Jack-‘o-Lantern, as well as our own offering, he added LEDs. Three of them occupy the flesh behind the eyes and nose, fading in and out thanks to some pulse-width modulation that an Arduino provides.
Mad Scientist Blinken Costume
[Bill Porter] is getting down with the LEDs by making a Mad Scientist costume. The accent jewelry is an LED matrix necklace that he made himself to go along with 76 of them sewn into the coat. Also joining the party is over one hundred feet of wire and two Arduinos.
Dole Out Candy Via Twitter/Phone
Apparently [Noel Portugal] will be too busy hacking together his next project to dish out candy on Halloween. To make up for his double-booked schedule he built an automated candy dispenser. Just tweet your request and the bucket will open a hatch from which candy will fall. There’s also an option to activate it with a voice call, or just slap that red button until your blood sugar reaches an adequate level.
Star Wars Pumpkins
[Charles Gantt] carved Yoda’s mug into his pumpkin and backlit it with green LEDs. Someone else paired two together for a Death Star shoots Alderon scene [via Reddit]. If those aren’t enough for you there’s a Star Wars top 10 collection out there somewhere.
Now go start working on next year’s props!
Yoda didn’t look like a hack. Thats a stencil out of the Star Wars pumkin carving book. I would of liked to see more halloween insprired hacks this year.
Thanks for featuring Yoda guys.
@Ben Technically any pumpkin that has been carved to display an image is a hack because it took something and made it do something completely different than it was designed to do. Not all hacking is about micro controllers, scripts, robots, or nokia lcd screens.
Thanks for the post HAD!
I also want to scare something I found last night, that would be the perfect accessory for my Mad Scientist costume:
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1288424668
scare == share
Apparently I have Halloween on the brain.
The death star scene is wonderful.
While I don’t mean to crap on anyone’s project… LED’s in a lab coat? TWO arduinos? Really? There’s a think called multiplexing and a cheaper board called the Maple if you just needed extra GPIO pins.
@Spork
If you bothered to read my blog, you would find that the coat and the marquee are two separate systems. The coat is run by one Arduino that runs 8 channels of software PWM that I built a few years ago.
The whole marquee is run by a second integrated AVR, and is part of a product I am developing recently that differs from other serial matrix drivers that have an AVR chip per 8×8 Matrix. Instead, my design has one AVR that can run 10 8×8 matrices (1280 LEDS) in a row using only 5 IO lines. I do know a thing or two about multiplexing obviously.
Before you crap on anything, you should probably take the time to look down at what you are crapping on.
the Death Star vs. Alderaan is so freakin’ epic…
as if millions of seeds suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
**AHEM**AHEM**
It’s Alderaan. Not Alderon. Geez…. lern2geek.