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'BOO! Pi Costume Contest' Raspberry Pi 3 & Sense HAT for FREE - 2016 HALLOWEEN COMPETITION NOW ENDED

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What are you going to be this Halloween?

Simply ENTER ANY SIMPLE IDEA as a comment here by 23:59 GMT on 1st November 2016 to WIN a Raspberry Pi TREAT BAG including the Pi 3, Sense HAT and goodies!

 

It’s that time of year again at element14 when we let out the ghosts and ghoulies from our electronics cabinets and get in to the spirit of things; this year with our ‘BOO! Pi' Costume Contest.

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Supported by Raspberry Pi, post your ideas for creepy costumes and wearable tech here and we'll choose our top 10 favourite attires to send a BOO! Pi Treat Bag containing the latest Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and Raspberry Pi Sense HAT.

You can use any tech to make your outfit.

 

For inspiration, Community Top Member and Halloween aficionado has already started designing his very own walking, talking, digital slot machine, so why not follow Charles and his own costume project blogs.

Blog 1: Raspberry PySlots: The Costume - Introduction? and

Blog 2:The Costume - Hardware, Software, and Pretty Lights! and

Blog 3: Raspberry PySlots: The Costume - The Slot Machine, NeoPixels, Pull Arm, And Finishing Things Up

 

To get your skulls glowing, here’s some more muse:

 

    Ben Heck's Hacker Halloween Mask                                          Ben Heck Builds a Portal Shirt for Halloween

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    Ben Heck's Halloween Superhero Wearables Part 2             Ben Heck's Halloween Drone: Dressed Up as a Ghost

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Not spooky enough? Looking for other Halloween costume ideas? >

 

Basic Terms

  • No limits on how many pictures you post. Any haunted humans, animals and object costumes accepted.
  • Use any tech and costumery to make your outfit.
  • Entries posted up to 23:59 on 1st November when all ghoulishness will be suspended for another year will be in with a chance to win 1 of 10 BOO! Pi treat bags.
  • All genuine ideas and designs commented up to the competition close date and time will also be awarded an exclusive digital badge on their profile! image
  • We'll announce the winners here no later than November 4th, 2016.

 

Read full Terms & Conditions >

 

Now Go Get Your BOO on!

 

 

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  • Okay per my previous post discussing The Witch Lantern.  Here are some pictures and proof of success!

     

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    My little witch and her Lantern.

     

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    Here she is with the Lantern in use without flash.  Much better view of the glowing lantern.

     

    The video is of the classic Jellyfish.  First off, she decided the scary video was just too scary and this was the only video I could find that would play for longer then a minute.  There is actually a 10 hour video of this out there if you need to just have a constant video display to show off the hologram projector.

     

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    Here is the Lantern broken down.  It can be further disassembled with the top coming off as well but it really didn't add any value to the pictures. 

     

    The Left box was 5 inch by 5 inch Halloween box found at the Dollar store.  This provide the basics to work with and enabled me to have my prototype be twice the size of the standard smartphone 3d Hologram projector.  Which is key since my next steps will involve working with a Raspberry Pi and larger displays for Desktop use.  For this though I wanted portable so went with the above.  The box on the right is also another Dollar Store Halloween box that was a good size to allow me use a phone in for display and later swap out a RPi 3 with a suitable Display Hat and have room for a battery as well.

     

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    Here we have the 5x5 box flipped on it's side where you can look up through the bottom and see the magnifying lens that I applied right below the pyramid to allow for the larger use of a display pyramid while still using a small smart phone display.  The magnifying lens was a plastic option also found at the local Dollar store.  The Pyramid was formed from a plastic photo stand from the same Dollar store.

     

    Fun stuff!  Definitely something I want to continue testing and see how large a display I can go with out getting to crazy.

     

    Here was a short clip of the actual video shown by the projector:

     

    Well actually I can not submit the video it keeps getting an error:

     

    An unexpected error has occurred

    Our software developers will find this code useful if they need to look into the issue: 3154E7A7396722.3n4o6d3e611:jkutzsch:W54

    Report Problem in Feedback & Support (this will automatically send us the error code above)

     

     

     

    So perhaps later I will add the video.  :-)  But this was a fun project and the kids loved using it for Halloween, it went with my Daughters Costume quite well!

     

    I hope everyone else had as much fun making technology work with Halloween!

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  • Okay per my previous post discussing The Witch Lantern.  Here are some pictures and proof of success!

     

    image

    My little witch and her Lantern.

     

    image

    Here she is with the Lantern in use without flash.  Much better view of the glowing lantern.

     

    The video is of the classic Jellyfish.  First off, she decided the scary video was just too scary and this was the only video I could find that would play for longer then a minute.  There is actually a 10 hour video of this out there if you need to just have a constant video display to show off the hologram projector.

     

    image

     

    Here is the Lantern broken down.  It can be further disassembled with the top coming off as well but it really didn't add any value to the pictures. 

     

    The Left box was 5 inch by 5 inch Halloween box found at the Dollar store.  This provide the basics to work with and enabled me to have my prototype be twice the size of the standard smartphone 3d Hologram projector.  Which is key since my next steps will involve working with a Raspberry Pi and larger displays for Desktop use.  For this though I wanted portable so went with the above.  The box on the right is also another Dollar Store Halloween box that was a good size to allow me use a phone in for display and later swap out a RPi 3 with a suitable Display Hat and have room for a battery as well.

     

    image

     

    Here we have the 5x5 box flipped on it's side where you can look up through the bottom and see the magnifying lens that I applied right below the pyramid to allow for the larger use of a display pyramid while still using a small smart phone display.  The magnifying lens was a plastic option also found at the local Dollar store.  The Pyramid was formed from a plastic photo stand from the same Dollar store.

     

    Fun stuff!  Definitely something I want to continue testing and see how large a display I can go with out getting to crazy.

     

    Here was a short clip of the actual video shown by the projector:

     

    Well actually I can not submit the video it keeps getting an error:

     

    An unexpected error has occurred

    Our software developers will find this code useful if they need to look into the issue: 3154E7A7396722.3n4o6d3e611:jkutzsch:W54

    Report Problem in Feedback & Support (this will automatically send us the error code above)

     

     

     

    So perhaps later I will add the video.  :-)  But this was a fun project and the kids loved using it for Halloween, it went with my Daughters Costume quite well!

     

    I hope everyone else had as much fun making technology work with Halloween!

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