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Paranormal Sensor Suggestions?

Sean_Miller

I had a couple of ambitious true ghost hunters approach me about a build to help them on their adventures.

 

I'm definitely going to help them with a raspberry pi solution.  However, I feel like I could use some more sensors.  Here's what I thought of so far:

 

  • Temperature (if it changes a degree in less than 10 seconds)
  • PIR motion sensor
  • Infrared camera that records
  • Record audio
  • Voltage sensing poles (thinking I would just have some metal rods that would allow me to detect a change in voltage between the two.

 

 

What other thoughts do you have that would be cool for ghost hunting?

 

Thanks,

Sean

  • 0 in reply to neuromodulator

    It seems sometimes that half the devices on the market cater to imaginary problems or provide snake oil solutions to real problems. As long as Sean isn't promising results he might as well have some fun with designing and making a specialized sensor array with which his friends can delude themselves and chase sensory glitches around old houses.

     

    John

  • 0 in reply to jw0752

    John, you summed it up perfectly.  I see this as a cool opportunity to make a very neat prop and integrate every sensor I can imagine into it.  When we're done, my boy and I will have a full library of custom code and Eagle schematics to leverage forward in our projects.

     

    For the two ghost hunters, they would just like to capture physical changes in their environment and speculate as to what caused it in historical haunted settings.  Due to the underground railroad and help from Mark Twain, the nearby town Alton, Illinois has become a paranormal enthusiasts tourist destination with town haunted tours.  So, as a hobby, they enjoy getting in on the action.

     

    I've only watched the Ghost Hunter TV show a couple of times and I got a kick out of things like out of focus dust floaters being called "orbs".  So with the sensors suggested on this thread, I think we can up their game immensely.

     

    -Sean

  • 0 in reply to jw0752

    That was my favourite experiment in ages : ) And I remember you had fun with it too.

    It is such a cool part to experiment with, and really versatile with what it can be used for!!

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    If you want a great project I am trying to build for my own starter team and was trying to think of new tech what about using a Ouiji board with touch/vibration sensors on the board that light an LED drilled just under each leeter and answer,, Plexiglas circles with frosted cover (mactac or resin filled) and temp sensing RGB's would compliment the effect and you could include the Pi cam with shadow detection LED's and buzzer so you get three confirmed sensor reactions, instead of most devices one or two, the leds would add mystic aura to design for visually pleasing and exciting interactions, it could eventually be adapted to say the letter or answer as it is triggered, would be great alt to Rem-pods and Spirit comm boxes. Using Arduino Uno or Nano and a shield, Ada-fruit Circuit Express, Neopixel;s, Raspberry Pi, Feather, I'm not completely certain about the coding  (I prefer old school electricity but am adapting slowly) you could possibly also eventually boost the "signal they use to manifest" using a WiFi shield? Or use the Arduino FM Radio Receiver and, the Ar1010 with a breakout, if it could be kept small enough to incorperate a  few visual and auditory indicators, but the main would be the responses could be spelled out and not limited to a download library file or the FM AM radio?

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    I would recommend to go with the Kinect sensor, numerous videos exist on YouTube for such task..    ::(.  )