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

Jul

2008

* 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 ...

Home automation software

May

2008

* 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

2008

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

May

2008

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 drumpads and other stuff

Jan

2008

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

1-wire

Jan

2008

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

Replace my X10 crud

Dec

2007

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: * eHomeUpgrade | New XBee Wall Router Makes it Easy to Deploy and Extend ZigBee Networks * ...

Halloween props

Aug

2007

* 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

2007

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

2007

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.

EFX-TEK Prop2 controller

Feb

2007

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

Arduino Stamp and Sparkfun

Nov

2006

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

Show control software

Oct

2006

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

Surround Sound Status continued

Oct

2006

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 roadie is the headphone jack. You can use it simultaneously with the spdif out — so many sound cards turn off the speaker out when ...

Another haunt controller

Oct

2006

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 of cool. I think it is too late for me to play around with this halloween but I would certainly consider for next. I guess ...

Basic Lovefest

Sep

2006

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 say, it is quite fun to be able to jump into a program so fast without all the object/ui/typing/etc overhead of “modern” languages or “modern” ...

Servo Links

Sep

2006

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

Delusional Key Banger

Sep

2006

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). Seems useful.

Article on pneumatic circuit design

Sep

2006

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

DC Power Supplies

Aug

2006

Circuit Specialists Inc. – PowerSupply1 Single Output Switching Power Supplies