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 audio. The pumpkins are fake, which means that can be reused year after year (unlike our LED matrix inside a real pumpkin). The mouth is connected to a servo with a short piece of bent wire, allowing it to flap along with the words of a song. You can see a performance of the Ghostbusters theme in the clip after the break.
A custom GUI was written in C# to aid in the choreography. It handles the playback of the song, with a few buttons that can be used to record the light and mouth effects. This ‘recording’ is then used to drive the pumpkins during a performance.
Cool, don’t cross the streams.
Love it! I am totally going to have to get a pair of these for Halloween. The Minion boards look really interesting as well. Can’t wait to see what other uses they have.
i want to see the A cappella version.
Now that is kinda cool.
I would use DMX to control, music, lighting and movement, but that is probably because that is what I do for a local theater.
I’ll see your ghost busters pumpkins and raise you a:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Xq1thUYpU
Disney started this in the early 60’s. I can’t listen. Looks like TI TI … in Morse to me. Ghostbusters-when holeywood hacked Music! Anything else please.