2013 Halloween Project
Ok, previous years I went to the trouble of putting my controllers in cases only to want to do something different the next year and abandoning the old case.
So, this year, no case. Actually making them so they can be disassembled and re-purposed afterwards.
New props adding to the line-up this year
So, this year, no case. Actually making them so they can be disassembled and re-purposed afterwards.
New props adding to the line-up this year
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The nearly finished live trap box. I am planning to turn off the lights after lid pops up, Leaving it
to the imagination what might of crawled out of the box.
A diagram I worked up to help in the wiring of the relay control board.
Current plan for the layout of the haunt.
The trail-goers have to enter door of Junk Yard that says "No trespassing" "Dog guards on duty" which trips the laser tripline and turns off
the happy Cajun party music and the first dog starts growling. He attacks a short time later, then the live trap box goes off with the tent lights blinking off.
Then pole cat does his thing and the Spectre. Got two dogs that I don't have controlled that I am not sure what I am going to do with them.
Then a fellow in a Leatherface mask jumps them in the next tent who pushes them out into the tear down area where more psycho rednecks are
sizing up the trail-goers for body bags and following them into the killzone.
I then set off the last electronics here turning on the airhorn and spotlights.
Then one final goose as they round the truck with the spotlights as head banger in the drivers seat starts doing his thing.
I should make a trip to Ocala this year to check your stuff out!
Jamie
http://www.parallax.com/
I was just down at Disneyland helping them with some Propeller code for a controller (EFX-TEK HC-8+) that they'll be using to control a servo-animated Zero puppet that will be "flying" on the top of the gingerbread house in the Mansion (this is all part of the Nightmare Before Christmas overlay). In that same prop they're using a couple BASIC Stamp 1-based Prop-1 controllers (also from EFX-TEK) to randomly move Jack Skellington icons.
If you visit Disneyland (Anaheim, CA) on or after September 13th you'll see lots or Parallax powered props in action -- among them, the BASIC Stamp 1 (Prop-1 controller), BASIC Stamp 2 (Prop-2 controller), SX chip (Prop-SX and EZ-8 controllers), and the Propeller (HC-8+ controller).
absent minded I would walk right into it.
"Is that an alarm going off?", me.
**swish**
<thud>
Which brings up polecat who is moving way too fast to be seen.
polecat at a better clip.
The 3amp worries me if it will move the prop, and that it was only $4.00 including shipping worries me a bit too, but I am running
on a really small budget.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/380703395583?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
The Propeller could also provide the PWM control if you happen to have some appropriate power MOSFETs (and driver circuitry).
turn motor off. Works most of the time, but sometimes he bounces back forward.
A chord attaches the shoulders to the building, pulling the shoulders down thru a pulley, bringing the arms up.
The chord seems to yank him back before the arms come up, which wasn't what I was envisioning, but it will work.
I am using Google's Spreadsheet, which isn't Excel but has most everything I need.
After importing the log file, I create a pivot table with the column hours and a value of count. Then just a simple bar graph showing
the hits on the laser tripline per hour.
Haven't figured out how to make use of the minute data.
frame for the Junk Yard's Sales tent. A long enclosure that will house most of the animated props.
Got maybe a week before we move the props to the location.
A large Tesla coil could add "shock" value.
The Haunt takes place mostly in the city which is the SW corner of the whole playing field.
A Mad Lab is one of the things we are missing in all that.
Thanks to the Jaycees joining us this year, we are going to have a maze somewhere. They
use to have their own Haunted Trail at Silver Springs Nature Park, but Florida took over the park
this month and I guess there was some issue of them doing it there so they are joining us.
We might have some REALLY busy nights.
with no planning or measurements and with whatever materials are nearby then
I am your guy as I have a master's in redneck construction.
I control this with a hand trigger switch that I took off a drill.
First press turns on spotlights and airhorn
Second press turns them off
Third press runs Headbanger 3 seconds
Forth press runs Headbanger 3 seconds
then it goes back to top of the list.
repeat repeat while ina[startbutton] == 0 'do nothing til first press outa[airhorn] := 1 outa[spotlights] := 1 waitcnt(clkfreq /2 + cnt) repeat while ina[startbutton] == 0 'keep on until next press outa[airhorn] := 0 outa[spotlights] := 0 waitcnt(clkfreq /2 + cnt) repeat while ina[startbutton] == 0 'wait for next press to do first headbanger outa[headbangermotor] := 1 waitcnt(clkfreq * 3 + cnt) outa[headbangermotor] := 0 waitcnt(clkfreq /2 + cnt) repeat while ina[startbutton] == 0 'wait for next press to do second headbanger outa[headbangermotor] := 1 waitcnt(clkfreq * 3 + cnt) outa[headbangermotor] := 0 waitcnt(clkfreq /2 + cnt)trip wire times, but with everything else working I am going without it this weekend. Hope to work on it next week.
It is hard to account for in my routine for the different speeds people come through.