• 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…
  • Nobody Home: the cursed doll that only moves when you leave the room

    A cursed doll turns its head only when nobody is there. No PIR, no camera. An M5Stack AtomS3R pings the router 100 times a second and reads WiFi CSI. Anyone moving nearby, even behind a closed door, and…
  • PANHEAD: The Undead Maintenance Technician

    Panhead is a Halloween skeleton transformed into a demonic animatronic maintenance technician using Arduino-controlled servos, custom mechanical linkages, Bottango animation software, and AI-generated…
  • Scare-O-Matic 2026 Edition

    A speaker disguised as a rock plays scary sounds, triggered by a motion sensor when those pesky little Trick-Or-Treaters approach. History A long time ago in a lab far, far away a Halloween prop was…
  • 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…
  • The Proverbial Black Box

    A mysterious black box addresses the Halloween theme of "Boo in a box". Intro This blog is a 2024 Halloween project inspired by the theme "Boo in a box". The project uses a proverbial electronics black…
  • The third eye

    Hello makers and let's build something funny! Hello makers and let's build something funny! I made a little project that's more funny than scary, "The third eye!" . Unfortunately, I can't say that it makes…