From Instructables user Eric Kingston comes this Arduino-controlled Silly String shooting pumpkin. It’s motion-activated, makes a Goblin-esque cackling noise, and Tweets a report each time it squirts another victim. Eric also wins a thousand internet video style points for making his whole point in five seconds with no talking!
Make: Halloween Contest 2009
Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
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Josh writes in to spread the word about the Muralizer verticle surface printer/plotter project – which is hopefully a kit in the making -
t’s a drawbot that takes SVGs as input, letting you print vector graphics really big. The project was started at noisebridge, San Francisco’s hackerspace, earlier this year, and we got a prototype going (a bit of video is up on the page).
I’d love to bring this piece of open hardware to the community as a kit, but need some help to do so. Inspired by the success of MakerBeam, I set up a kickstarter page. It would be great if people could pledge even a little bit to help make this tool available to artists (and those of us who want to be artists but are better at soldering than painting).
This could foreseeably give artist’s assistants a run for their money (do they even get pay?) More on the project’s planning and development can be found on Kickstarter & the Muralizer blog.
Related:
Hektor – The spray painting robot
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Todbot is at it again. Here’s a creepy, simple, and effective Halloween effect — a pair of glowing eyeballs that look back and forth at your victims. It’s made with two ping pong balls, two BlinkM programmable LEDs, three servomotors, and an Arduino microcontroller. Stick ti in a pumpkin, or better yet, incorporate it into your costume, and you’ve got maximum spookiness.
Head to the todbot blog for more info, and to download the Arduino sketch.
In the Maker Shed:
Arduino Duemilanove
BlinkM – Smart LED
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