[Sam] is an avid Halloween builder and has been hard at work on a time-machine simulator for this year’s festivities (alternate link). He recently assembled the enclosure which is seen above. It’s got room for two riders who will be strapped in place, with plenty of interior items to keep them occupied. There will be three LCD monitors acting as front and side windows for the time machine.
In the video after the break (taken from his vblog on the page linked above) [Sam] walks us through all of the electronics that went into this. He’s got red lights controlled by a servo motor attached to a dimmer switch. There’s a vibrating seat to give the riders a jolt, and a control panel which shows the status of the time machine. The thing is, it’s not just the physical build that’s impressive. We know from his past projects that [Sam] is a showman and he doesn’t disappoint this year. He spent a lot of time filming and generating computer graphics and sound to really make the ride a multimedia odyssey.
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Dude.. This is awesome!.. Makes me wish I could take a ride!..
One might call it a Turdis
Brilliant.
You sir, win one free internet! Congratulations!
“Fantastic!”
Its bigger on the inside than the outside, and smellier!
When I worked on building sites we called the blue porta loo’s Turdis! http://www.elliottuk.com/toilets-showers/portable/portable_toilets/
Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine… out of an OUTHOUSE?
It’s got room for two riders who will be strapped in place …
Now where did he find a two-seater outhouse? :S
Haven’t you ever heard of a two story outhouse?!
IS his next time machine conversion going to be that hottub that was shown towards the end of the video?
May I present to you, the greatest breakthrough in travel since Sir Rodney Tricycle thought to himself, “I’m bored of walking. I think I’ll invent something with three wheels and a bell, and name it after myself”: the time machine.
you know SOMEONE is actually gonna take a crap in that thing on Halloween? just for shits and giggles
I have a wireless camera installed in the ride to get rider reactions as well as to watch out for stealth poopers.
You know I mixed magnesium sulfate and nitrus oxide once just for shits and giggles.
That is one awesome halloween time machine :) I am just getting ready with a blood bathtub :)
Oh, shame on you ALL for these allusions to Doctor Who’s Tardis… no one made a reference to “Amy Pond’s crack”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_arcs_in_Doctor_Who#Cracks_in_the_universe
Using an outhouse is a great idea…you can scare the piss out of kids without all the cleaning!
Ah a suicide both, disguised as an out house.
It’s all fun and games, till someone take a dump
To reduce mechanical complexity, why not do the dimming with a DMX dimmer rack and a USB controller?
The only downside i can think of is that you’d need to write a separate routine for it.
what’s so complex about a servo attached to a dimmer switch? Plus Dimmer Switch – $5, servo – $20. DMX Dimmer Rack $80-200ish plus cost of DMX lights plus usb controller. Cost was an issue as the rest of the build was getting a little much. haha.
See “Black Adder:Back and Forth” for the original outhouse time machine…
I’m the only one who thinks in “Day of the Tentacle”?