This project aims to create an animatronic alien creature from the Crab nebula. The “Crabster” has a crab-lobster body and a pacumpkin head with lollipop eyeballs.This animatronic machine turned into a giant mechanical design challenge with forty-fou...
For our local community theatre group in Sydney, we are currently putting on the musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS about the man-eating plant that comes to New York to take over the world. As part of the production, to show long boring days in the ...
As Halloween approaches, one great project is to use a distance sensor to have a MakerBit play spooky sounds when someone reaches their hand into a container of treats! This project uses either the MakerBit R since this is the easiest unit to a...
Concept:I want to make a Halloween batman dog costume that has a flapping cape. I am going to use a continuous micro servo to pull the cape up and down, and use an accelerator to detect whether or not the dog is standing up or laying down, so that wh...
Well yes why not let's try it, things are change, we change traditions change as well, with the help of technology we can give form to things and create new objects.Nowadays we can create objects from plastic but not limited to in the future I guess....
Concept:I want to make a Halloween batman dog costume that has a flapping cape. I am going to use a continuous micro servo to pull the cape up and down, and use an accelerator to detect whether or not the dog is standing up or laying down, so that wh...
My halloween costume this year is a somewhat obscure Rick and Morty reference from season one. Here's a clip for the uninitiated (spoiler alert??): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF-i9ypRDXQ . I wanted to make the horrifying mechanical underwear...
Since this is the first project I have placed on Element 14 I will introduce myself. I am a retired mechanical engineer who got into electronics when my grandson asked me to build him an airplane several years ago and we put some “avionics” int...
Raspberry Pi Scary Movie www.youtube.com/watch Bruce Campbell for President! The Raspberry Pi "brain" of this project is playing one of my all-time favorites, " Evil D...
i have been working on this sence september 15th 2017 i used papaer mache,clay,liquid latex and toilet paper some parts printed with my 3d printe,r cardboard,cordboard tubes(from paper towels and christmass paper)thin foam board from dollor tree and ...
I have a 6 year old granddaughter and I thought she might get a kick out of a flying purple people eater. So I re-vectored another project I was working on to create this little animatronic monster.Here is a little demo of the flying purple eater in ...
When you really want to scare some kids, this is a fun project that's not too expensive.First purchase a lightweight plastic skull, I got mine at Target store.\Then add a couple of bright red LEDs to the eye sockets and wire up a small 3V battery...