RSSRodger's R/C ghost-bot might be the coolest thing I could imagine running into on Halloween night -
I have re-used my electric-wheelchair hack technology and applied it my ever-morphing holiday bots. Today's submission - Donna the Dead - "one mad bride that goes for a ride".Well done! Surely a somewhat scaled down version could be made using an inexpensive toy R/C car … unfortunately, this would likely not be well received in my urban neighborhood :/ - Donna The Dead BotUsing "low-tech" Home Depot pipe technology (tie-wrapped to her head), she seems to float though the chilling evening sky -- moaning at the mad scientist who wired 5 volts into her "Party City" vibrating scull. A $10 strobe running from a 12V scooter battery inverted to 110VAC makes sure she's noticed, and the 110V makes for easy use of a wall-wart to send 5 volts up the flat-black pole.
Spread spectrum dual channel RF technology insures she won't stray. The AVR code, that taps into the wheel-chair pot electronics is freely available at www.thespiritedtree.com and also was first posted in Trossen forums.
Last year I ran a 10th scale RC car with a foam craft pumpkin on top. I carved the pumpkin to hinge at the back and bungie'd it open slightly. So when I accelerated/braked it could chomp with the inertia...
It would scare the bejebus out of the kids, and was planning on repeating the act this year... but this might warrant a ReMake.
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