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

john — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:59:39 +0000

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

Home automation software

john — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:08:07 +0000

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

john — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:41:59 +0000

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

john — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:33:32 +0000

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

john — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:56:45 +0000

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

1-wire

john — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:00:53 +0000

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

Replace my X10 crud

john — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:21:18 +0000

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

john — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:29:25 +0000

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

john — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:55:11 +0000

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

john — Tue, 08 May 2007 10:57:00 +0000

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.