Kids & parents were very cool with my fire show tonight. Played it safe, had safety barriers up. I used an IR remote to trigger four different sequences. In fact, I let a lot of the kids use the remote to send a fire blast and not surprisingly, they thought that was the coolest. I had a LOT of smiling repeat customers. Many of them even forgot to get their candy! Everything was clamped to a stepladder to keep it all up high. And on top, Frankenstein's head with a built-in 20 kV Jacob's ladder.
Had a swarm of teenage witches, vampires, zombies, ghosts and ghouls come through the after-hours medical clinic. They asked for 'trick or treat' but we didn't have anything, so instead of a trick they gave us some treats!
The clinic is a family planning clinic during the day and the current display in the waiting room is 'Contraception through the last 500 years', which seemed to be of great interest to zombies and vampires alike.
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I'm glad we don't have any flame throwing pumpkins - yikes!
One of the boys in the 'hood asked me to help him with a sound effect for his vomiting zombie display. The total effect turned out fairly gruesome, and I just had to spend some time watching the reaction of some of the kids who dared approach that display. I warned the young man that it might be too much for some of the smaller kiddies and, just as I'd predicted, more than just a few little kiddies ran shrieking into the night, abandoning all interest in grabbing the candy that was offered.
However a few other kiddies were fascinated by it and the young man even stepped out and let them press the button that activated it.
Something tells me that any child under the age of 12 who saw that display will never try chewing tobacco as long as they live. Mission accomplished.
Our theme over the last couple of years has been giant spider webs, like 30 foot diameter spider webs. This year was the same except the position of the "webs" were in a way that you had to "enter" an opening in the web .... the girls wanted a funnel spider web. but my reply was "too much string" .... anyway one of the things I did for effect was to attach super fine copper wire (38 gauge ... about 0.1mm) to the entry point of the web and near the door where I was handing out candy. The length of wire was about 2 to 3 feet and the effect was perfect! .... at night you couldn't see the wire at all, but it was just enough of a creep factor that when you ran into it, it felt like you were running into a real spider web. The wire was placed about every six inches near the entry way and the door. About 80% of our visitors did the "spider web dance" :-) ....The pictures don't do it justice, but hopefully you get the idea.
Not a prank, but an outrageous light show along the lines of TSO's "Wizards of Winter" a few years back. Somebody has more time, energy & money than I do! What Does the Fox Say?
Kids & parents were very cool with my fire show tonight. Played it safe, had safety barriers up. I used an IR remote to trigger four different sequences. In fact, I let a lot of the kids use the remote to send a fire blast and not surprisingly, they thought that was the coolest. I had a LOT of smiling repeat customers. Many of them even forgot to get their candy! Everything was clamped to a stepladder to keep it all up high. And on top, Frankenstein's head with a built-in 20 kV Jacob's ladder.
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Reminds me of the Shockwave truck I saw twice at airshows in Nashville.
Shockwave has 3 after burners, you have four. Can we get those pumpkins to do over 300 MPH?
Also at 2:10 this looks like a George Barris custom Cultlass. Saw it at both airshows but could not get a close shot.
As I was attaching the last leg to my latest hexapod, my wife said "We could have it carry the Halloween candy up to the trick o' treaters". I take this to mean "Spend whatever it takes to get that robot working by Halloween."
It might need to be a small bowl of candy, but I think it should work.
I had to reverse one CR mod in order to have all 18. Forturnately these servos are really easy to mod (and unmod). The metal stop on the last gear is just a small rod which fits into a hole in the gear. Pull it out for CR, put it back in for normal use. I also had to move the pot back to it's original location. There's a small screw securing the pot up inside the servo. Fortunately I had been saving these small parts as I modified servos to CR so it wasn't a big deal to reverse the surgery.
Duane: Here's a backup plan if you don't finish your hexapod for Halloween.
If you create a YouTube video that gets 93 MILLION views (over 200M channel views), and monetize it with ads, you can pay someone else to build your hexapods for you.
Nothing extravagant for Halloween. Just going to wear my usual, sure fire, costume. I'll be disguised as a responsible adult. No one has recognized me yet!
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Looks really slick erco - I just hope kids can't get too close.
Not sure flamethrowers and excited children wearing combustible clothing are a good combination!!
(Is your attorney on speed dial?)
The clinic is a family planning clinic during the day and the current display in the waiting room is 'Contraception through the last 500 years', which seemed to be of great interest to zombies and vampires alike.
addit:
I'm glad we don't have any flame throwing pumpkins - yikes!
However a few other kiddies were fascinated by it and the young man even stepped out and let them press the button that activated it.
Something tells me that any child under the age of 12 who saw that display will never try chewing tobacco as long as they live. Mission accomplished.
Awesome flame throwers Erco, when you sequence a bunch of them it takes it to a whole new level of fun haha.
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Reminds me of the Shockwave truck I saw twice at airshows in Nashville.
Shockwave has 3 after burners, you have four. Can we get those pumpkins to do over 300 MPH?
Also at 2:10 this looks like a George Barris custom Cultlass. Saw it at both airshows but could not get a close shot.
It might need to be a small bowl of candy, but I think it should work.
I've had these servos around for a long time. Didn't they look familiar?
They're not MG996's; they're HXT12K metal gear servos from HobbyKing. I hope they're strong enough for this task.
I had to reverse one CR mod in order to have all 18. Forturnately these servos are really easy to mod (and unmod). The metal stop on the last gear is just a small rod which fits into a hole in the gear. Pull it out for CR, put it back in for normal use. I also had to move the pot back to it's original location. There's a small screw securing the pot up inside the servo. Fortunately I had been saving these small parts as I modified servos to CR so it wasn't a big deal to reverse the surgery.
If you create a YouTube video that gets 93 MILLION views (over 200M channel views), and monetize it with ads, you can pay someone else to build your hexapods for you.
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