- 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 use this
- simple DMX controller. I went away from DMX as most of my effects are outside, and water doesn’t mix with dmx cabling, but maybe there is a way to rework my system — after all i basically moved all control electronics into the garage last year and just ran power cables out.
- Planningwiz floor plan software — i use a plan to layout all my halloween plans, this might be a simpler tool
Posts Tagged Control
Home automation software
May 31
- Automate Your Home – Wired How-To Wiki — some solutions to try here, some mac solutions
- home automation app for the iphone coming…
OS X Home Control Server
May 8
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 one.
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 variable speed power controller for wiper motors. pretty useful and not crazy expensive. and halloween is less than 6 months out…
Midi Madness — some wildly cool devices here that I would never use.
1-wire
Jan 18
1-Wire Devices – Maxim — interesting low cost control wiring and protocol. Maybe useful for halloween projects. Via Wes Felter
Replace my X10 crud
Dec 23
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 on for next Halloween. Just a couple examples:
Halloween props
Aug 7
- 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 halloween edition — ordered
- Servo-Center. need to dig into more
- The Hand. Would be awesome to play with
Free Electronics Software
May 14
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 at Freebyte including pcb layout software, pinout references, datasheets.
and some more at epanorama.net including SPICE.
Halloween 07 planning
May 8
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 might try some pressure mats this year.