• ︎ “Haunting Eyes: A Gesture-Triggered ESP32 Animatronic Display”

    Haunting Eyes brings life to two LCD eyes powered by an ESP32-S3. Using gesture control and sound effects, the eyes blink, move, and react to nearby motion—creating a creepy yet fascinating interactive…
  • Automated Trick-or-Treating: One Man, Many Dogs, and a Delightfully Overengineered Halloween

    This Halloween, an engineer built an over-the-top sweets dispenser and "Trick" machine, complete with lights, sounds, and mild chaos - entertaining kids, confusing the dogs, and proving overengineering…
  • Basement Dragons

    Creating animation eyes using Adafruit eye bonnet software is not as easy as it looks. The project started with the simple idea of doing something for Halloween I had done before. Use the Adafruit animated…
  • Ghost Projector

    Device for projecting ghosts to the wall when entering room. As part of this year Halloween, I made automatic ghost on wall projector from one devkit with microcontroller, motion sensor, 4 addressable…
  • Halloween Crabby Crabapple Tree animatronics

    Crabby the crabapple tree wakes up if you get too close and yells at you to quit stepping on his roots. The build features Arduino Nano, PIR sensor, ISD1820 voice recorder module, LM386 audio amp. Is there…
  • Halloween Motion-Activated Scare System

    This project is an automated scare system for Halloween. An ESP32-CAM streams video to a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi uses computer vision to detect victims and triggers terrifying sounds from a hidden…
  • Haunted Mailbox

    This project uses electronics to bring a mailbox and some lawn art cat to life in a spooky Halloween haunting theme. The Haunted Mailbox Intro This year turned out to have a lot of trick-or-treaters…
  • Screaming Halloween Scary Mask with TFT Eyes and image capture

    SEEED Studio Xiao Round TFT Displays for eyes on a scary Halloween mask with raspberry pi camera and screaming witch sounds. I started this project as an upgrade to an older scary Halloween project with…
  • SoulCage - the Digital Trapped Soul Pendant

    It contains animated souls inside. The soul is always moving, always trying to escape from the pendant. ​ https://youtu.be/2smcsryumeQ As you all know, Halloween is coming soon! This is one…
  • Squid Game Doll

    Inspired by the Squid Game TV series in Netflix, the doll is chanting a spooky phrase. Given the popularity of this Korean Horror TV Series, I am inspired to create the "Red Light, Green Light" doll that…