Halloween ideas — green fire, rope lights, DMX, floor plan software

Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 mausoleum could ... Read more..

Home automation software

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Automate Your Home - Wired How-To Wiki — some solutions to try here, some mac solutions home automation app for the iphone coming… Read more..

OS X Home Control Server

Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Electric Motors for Props - Bride of Power Pack - Halloween Prop Building Supplies For The Home Haunter - Monster Guts

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

MIDI drumpads and other stuff

Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Midi Madness — some wildly cool devices here that I would never use. Read more..

1-wire

Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

1-Wire Devices - Maxim — interesting low cost control wiring and protocol. Maybe useful for halloween projects. Via Wes Felter Read more..

Replace my X10 crud

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Halloween props

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 cool. MAKE special ... Read more..

Free Electronics Software

Monday, May 14th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 links ... Read more..

Halloween 07 planning

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

EFX-TEK Prop2 controller

Saturday, February 17th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Kurt pointed this out to me — EFX-TEK :: Prop-2 Controller — new version, more outputs, BS2 syntax. Looking good. Read more..

Arduino Stamp and Sparkfun

Sunday, November 26th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Spark Fun Electronics — an alternative to basic stamps, and the sparkfun website looks like a good vendor for various electronics thingies. Read more..

Show control software

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Q-Manager Audio Playback and Show Control Software — meant to try this out this year but never got around to it. Perhaps next… Read more..

Surround Sound Status continued

Sunday, October 8th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Another haunt controller

Monday, October 2nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

A reader recommended this — Haunt Controller - Software for automating your haunt - holiday display - animatronics — PC software that interfaces with these kit74 relay boards. Looks ... Read more..

Basic Lovefest

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Servo Links

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

TCRG Links — bunches of suppliers and info sites servo connector pin-out — i needed this this week Read more..

Delusional Key Banger

Sunday, September 10th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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). ... Read more..

Article on pneumatic circuit design

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

MachineDesign.com: Right-sizing pneumatic motion systems — good breakdown of how to analyze pneumatic circuits, pointed out to me by the author. Read more..

DC Power Supplies

Thursday, August 31st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Circuit Specialists Inc. - PowerSupply1 Single Output Switching Power Supplies Read more..

New Halloween finds

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

i-Zombie.com • Welcome! — high power color organs — 1200 watts!!! this is tremendous. Unit 70 — great skeletons thanks to kurt for the tips. Read more..

lynxmotion for hobby electronics

Sunday, August 27th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I exhausted myself driving around yesterday looking for connectors and other electronics parts for some halloween projects. Vetco, radio Shack, frys were all strike outs as were the local ... Read more..

Wholesale Electronics

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Another great halloween supplier — Wholesale Electronics — I ordered a bunch of random relays and had them delivered in 48 hours. Read more..

EFX-TEK

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

One vendor kurt reminded me of was EFX-TEK . I ordered some stuff last night and these guys have killer customer service. Fast email response, they seem ... Read more..

Halloween Ideas

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

mutli-channel player — sned sounds over individual channels of a 5.1 setup. pretty useful for running multiple sounds off a single pc. Also a random tip on this ... Read more..