It's never to early to start planning for Halloween, Scaryhouse writes - "This is a massive and ever growing list of home haunt, semi-pro haunt, and other Halloween related projects...There really are a lot of haunters out there building great art out of garbage."Link. Pictured here, our haunted house controller from MAKE volume 03.
Posted by: ZapWiz on February 20, 2006 at 11:12 AM
I need to get the project I did years ago onto a webpage.
Basiclly it was a laser running across the front walk.
When you walked up to the house, it look almost peaceful, with blue and green lights.
But when you got about 4 feet away from the door you trip the laser. A photo sensor connected to a 555 timer, and relay would then kill the peaceful lights, and turn on red, black and strobing lights. Along with a looping tape of a guy screaming.
Posted by: 445supermag on February 20, 2006 at 3:27 PM
This last halloween I drove my '55 pontiac up on the lawn next to the walkway and closed the hood on a dummy. Then I used a headlight relay to remotely trigger the car's ahooga horn. I would wait until someone was just passing the car to sound it, I made a lot of people jump. For a while there was a group of people hanging out on the road waiting for the next victim. Here's post on the construction.
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I need to get the project I did years ago onto a webpage.
Basiclly it was a laser running across the front walk.
When you walked up to the house, it look almost peaceful, with blue and green lights.
But when you got about 4 feet away from the door you trip the laser. A photo sensor connected to a 555 timer, and relay would then kill the peaceful lights, and turn on red, black and strobing lights. Along with a looping tape of a guy screaming.
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This last halloween I drove my '55 pontiac up on the lawn next to the walkway and closed the hood on a dummy. Then I used a headlight relay to remotely trigger the car's ahooga horn. I would wait until someone was just passing the car to sound it, I made a lot of people jump. For a while there was a group of people hanging out on the road waiting for the next victim. Here's post on the construction.
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