* How To Make bright green fire | Wonder How To — cool looking, i wonder how toxic this is * Cheap ambient lighting with rope lights. Cool idea, my…
Tag: Control
* Automate Your Home – Wired How-To Wiki — some solutions to try here, some mac solutions * home automation app for the iphone coming…
Perceptive Automation Releases Indigo 3.0, Mac OS X Home Control Server | eHomeUpgrade — I’m going to need an X10/zwave control program for the mac for future halloweens, perhaps this…
Electric Motors for Props – Bride of Power Pack – Halloween Prop Building Supplies For The Home Haunter – Monster Guts — new product from these guys for halloween, a…
Midi Madness — some wildly cool devices here that I would never use.
I still have a few old crufty X10 devices I control at Halloween time. I am seeing a lot of Zigbee and Zwave products and think I need to move…
* Outdoor Garden Statues – Decor — some resin statuary up here that would be good in a graveyard setting * Inflatable Hearse — a little too cheesy maybe. but…
Found via Make, uC Hobby ? Blog Archive ? Free Electronics Hobby Software — a useful collection of resistor decoders, 555 timer info, schematic library links. Here’s some more free…
Geez it is may and I haven’t done crap for Halloween planning. The time to buy parts and build is rapidly approaching. Monster Guts sent me nice reminder spam, I…
Kurt pointed this out to me — EFX-TEK :: Prop-2 Controller — new version, more outputs, BS2 syntax. Looking good.
Spark Fun Electronics — an alternative to basic stamps, and the sparkfun website looks like a good vendor for various electronics thingies.
Q-Manager Audio Playback and Show Control Software — meant to try this out this year but never got around to it. Perhaps next…
Continuing to plug away on my halloween surround sound setup — A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way: Halloween Surround Sound Status One awesomely great feature of the turtlebeach audioadvantage…
A reader recommended this — Haunt Controller – Software for automating your haunt – holiday display – animatronics — PC software that interfaces with these kit74 relay boards. Looks kind…
Feld Thoughts: Where Has BASIC Gone? — Feld and commenters participate in the discussion about BASIC. I’ve recently come back to BASIC, programming BASIC stamps for Halloween. I have to…
* TCRG Links — bunches of suppliers and info sites * servo connector pin-out — i needed this this week
I’d never seen this before Creature Supply — records 4 minutes of firing events for 6 output lines, and then replays on receipt of an input trigger (IR, switchmat, etc).…
MachineDesign.com: Right-sizing pneumatic motion systems — good breakdown of how to analyze pneumatic circuits, pointed out to me by the author.
Circuit Specialists Inc. – PowerSupply1 Single Output Switching Power Supplies