Some engineering and science links for this Halloween:
Scientist Trains AI To Create Brilliantly Ludicrous “Sexy” Halloween Costume Ideas article shows what happens when you use AI to design a Halloween costume.
10 Scary True Stories from Engineering History presents you scary experiments like resurrecting the dead, mind control, radiation gone wrong, and man-eating robots, we’ve rounded up 10 of history’s creepiest true tales of science and engineering gone wrong.
What Are Americans Most Afraid Of In 2018?
A Skull-Shaped ‘Dead Comet’ Will Zoom Past Earth This Halloween
Here are some hardware hacking related links for this Halloween:
Fake Walkie-Talkie for Fake Ghost Tours article show a fake walkie-talkie project that is a GPS enabled audio player where comedy meets tourism.
3D Printing, Halloween Style shows how you can 3D print a scary pumpkin decoration.
Animatronic Browser-Controlled Singing Jack-O’-Lanterns article shows an excellent trio of DIY pumpkins that “sing” along with classic Halloween songs like “Monster Mash” or whatever tune you program into it.
Scary Pumpkin with motion detector and movements! article shows a pumkin with sensor which detects movement, then there’s the smart LED strip and also added servo motor to scare even more neighbors. All the functions can be controlled by MQTT in node-red for example
Your Jack-O’-Lantern May Look Cool, but Can It Hover? article presents how you can turn your pumpkin into a hovercraft.
Adafruit’s HalloWing Skull-Shaped Dev Board Is Optimized for Halloween Project
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Halloween projects for engineers
https://www.edn.com/collections/4458975/Halloween-projects-for-engineers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=ad&utm_medium=EDNFunFriday-20181026
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https://hackaday.com/2018/10/26/ghost-rider-costume-is-smoking-hot/
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https://hackaday.com/2018/10/28/easy-blinking-led-eyes-for-halloween/
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light up spooky random blinking Halloween eyes with LEDs and Arduino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbWs9cv3cqM
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Scary Pumpkin with motion detector and movements!
https://hackaday.io/project/161902-scary-pumpkin-with-motion-detector-and-movements
Pumkin with sensor which detects movement, then there’s the smart LED strip and I’ve also added servo motor to scare even more neighbors.
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Halloween Blinky Eye Lights
https://hackaday.io/project/4357-halloween-blinky-eye-lights
‘Blinking Eyes Light’ to hide in bushes for Halloween
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9 Ways that Halloween Has Gone High-Tech
Technology applied to Halloween has made things safer and more fun for the spookiest night of the year.
https://www.designnews.com/materials-assembly/9-ways-halloween-has-gone-high-tech?ADTRK=UBM&elq_mid=6202&elq_cid=876648
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Halloween projects for engineers
https://www.edn.com/collections/4458975/Halloween-projects-for-engineers
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Build a Ghost Rider Costume That Smokes Using Vape Fluid
https://blog.hackster.io/build-a-ghost-rider-costume-that-smokes-using-vape-fluid-2db0e3e08a4
Mikeasaurus’s Ghost Rider costume is a bit of both, and his tutorial will show you how he accomplished that.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Ghost-Rider-Costume/
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It’s a 3D printed, singing Sea of Thieves skull for Halloween
https://www.htxt.co.za/2018/10/29/its-a-3d-printed-singing-sea-of-thieves-skull-for-halloween/
With Halloween just two days away, one maker has created a Sea of Thieves display that can both move and serenade trick-or-treaters.
He tells us, that to make this singing skull, he started with the model of a bounty skull in Blender and then made some adjustments to fit electronics inside.
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Shocking! Terrifying! Halloween Toy Autopsy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whBF5ZJXgbs
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9 Inventions Provide Frightful Fun for Halloween
https://www.designnews.com/content/9-inventions-provide-frightful-fun-halloween?ADTRK=UBM&elq_mid=6202&elq_cid=876648
Halloween isn’t just a time for creative costumes. Thanks to the element14 online design community, the holiday this year also brings us a number of creative electronic device design ideas aimed at making your Halloween party a unique experience.
The community sponsored a Halloween Pi Project and asked engineers to come up with Halloween-themed devices based on the Raspberry Pi computer platform. Element14 shared the results with Design News.
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9 Ways that Halloween Has Gone High-Tech
Technology applied to Halloween has made things safer and more fun for the spookiest night of the year.
https://www.designnews.com/materials-assembly/9-ways-halloween-has-gone-high-tech?ADTRK=UBM&elq_mid=6298&elq_cid=876648
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Roasting Marshmallows With My HEAD ON FIRE! 100% Real Fire!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD5I4eJ9sz4
fire gel while doing some real work
Roasting marshmallows with your head burning
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https://blog.hackster.io/dad-powered-mechwarrior-halloween-costume-c98884da80a7
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https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/cameroncoward/fallout-doctor-halloween-costume-becc71?f=1
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https://www.instructables.com/id/Mac-O-Lanterns/
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How to Build a DIY Animatronic Halloween Prop Using Arduino © GPL3+
https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/amrmostaafaa/how-to-build-a-diy-animatronic-halloween-prop-using-arduino-72ec85?f=1
Arduino Halloween robot that can be controlled manually and autonomously. It can play terrifying Halloween soundtracks with light changing.
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Arduino moving eyes Halloween pumpkin using 12 servos
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=xF_aKW9eX3U
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MIT Is Giving You Control Of A Real Person On Halloween In A Dystopian Game That Sounds Like An Episode Of “Black Mirror”
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/mit-is-giving-you-control-of-a-read-person-on-halloween-in-a-dystopian-game-that-sounds-like-an-episode-of-black-mirror/
This Halloween, the creepiest event to attend might be a mass online social experiment hosted by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MIT is famous for churning out some of the world’s top engineers, programmers, and scientists. But the university’s Media Laboratory is increasingly known for launching experimental projects in October that are designed to make us squirm.
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AI Attempts To Write A Scary Story For Halloween And The Results Are Completely Surreal
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ai-attempts-to-write-a-scary-story-for-halloween-and-the-results-are-completely-surreal/
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Arduino moving eyes Halloween pumpkin using 12 servos
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xF_aKW9eX3U&feature=youtu.be
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Star Wars, Elvis haunt the ISS on Halloween
https://www.cnet.com/news/star-wars-elvis-haunt-the-iss-on-halloween/
The International Space Station crew also has a mad scientist to keep them company.
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Five ways to make Halloween less cyber-scary for kids
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/10/31/five-ways-halloween-less-cyber-scary-kids/
How can we help kids avoid security horrors and stay safe from rogue online “neighbors” at Halloween and thereafter?
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Spooky Animated Eyes for Your Frightening Needs
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/31/spooky-animated-eyes-for-your-frightening-needs/
Unless you have an incredibly well-stocked parts bin, it’s probably too late to build these spooky animated eyes to scare off the neighborhood kiddies this year. But next year…
https://www.sudomod.com/spooky-arduino-halloween-eyes/
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10 Great Halloween Projects for Engineers
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333840
Having engineering skills (no matter the discipline) can come in quite handy for holiday themed projects. Halloween ranks as one of the top celebrations for breaking out some creativity to frighten those looking for tricks or treats. No other holiday lets engineers design interesting creative hijinks, to bring forth scary illusions that go way beyond taping a paper skeleton to the front door or spreading fake webbing on shrubbery.
In this roundup, we will take a look at some of the more exciting, unique and recent projects that engineers have come up with to celebrate All Hallow’s Eve
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Cybersecurity class challenged to hack a Raspberry-Pi-enabled “smart pumpkin”
https://boingboing.net/2018/11/01/pumpkin-pi-2.html?utm_source=moreatbb&utm_medium=nextpost&utm_campaign=nextpostthumbnails
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Soft Poly Limb Device Gives You a Third Arm
https://blog.hackster.io/soft-poly-limb-device-gives-you-a-third-arm-62547b62208c
Use for a third arm can go in a lot of different directions. It could help you with your daily tasks, make things easier for you
A team of researchers at Arizona State University took on this problem head-on and have invented a soft-poly limb system that essentially gives you a handy robotic arm
The Soft Poly Limb (SPL) is a fluid driven wearable device that gives the user control of an additional limb
Soft Poly-Limbs: Toward a New Paradigm of Mobile Manipulation for Daily Living Tasks
https://biomech.asu.edu/spl
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http://controlgeek.net/blog/2018/11/4/gravesend-inn-2018-press
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It’s Never Too Early To Prepare For Halloween: With Flamethrowers
https://hackaday.com/2019/05/10/its-never-too-early-to-prepare-for-halloween-with-flamethrowers/
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Use Adafruit’s MONSTER M4SK and Reverse-Augmented Reality for a Creepy Halloween Costume
https://www.hackster.io/news/use-adafruit-s-monster-m4sk-and-reverse-augmented-reality-for-a-creepy-halloween-costume-777ee5ce5df1
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Terrifying Animatronic Spider-Pumpkin Hybrid
https://www.hackster.io/news/terrifying-animatronic-spider-pumpkin-hybrid-c7b79615a209
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CircuitPython Helps Keep Candy Safe From Thieving Halloween Ghouls
https://www.hackster.io/news/circuitpython-helps-keep-candy-safe-from-thieving-halloween-ghouls-873d0e5cb8fc
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Every jack-o’-lantern needs a pair of animatronic eyes
https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/10/31/every-jack-o-lantern-needs-a-pair-of-animatronic-eyes/
If you’d like your jack-o’-lantern to stand out, a pair of animatronic eyes should do the trick.
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https://blog.particle.io/2019/10/31/spooky-animatronic-phone/
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https://hackaday.com/2019/10/20/pneumatic-zombie-will-blow-away-trick-or-treaters/
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https://www.thomann.de/blog/fi/miten-luot-pelottavia-soundeja/
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This Man Turned His Alexa Into A Talking Skull And It Is Incredibly Spooky
https://read.ilovehalloween.net/this-guy-made-a-skull-speak-in-the-voice-of-alexa
Mike McGurrin decided to take up Alexa’s creepiness a notch higher by attaching it to the head of the skull and when it speaks, the results are absolutely terrifying.
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Creepy Pumpkin
A Halloween prop pumpkin that will definitely creep people out.
https://hackaday.io/project/166642-creepy-pumpkin
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https://hackaday.com/2020/10/06/making-a-halloween-costume-fit-for-2020/
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https://hackaday.com/2020/09/25/candy-slide-keeps-halloween-spooky-and-socially-distant/
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https://hackaday.com/2020/10/23/trick-or-yeet-cannon-will-give-them-candy-shell-shock/
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// Having no internet was the scariest thing I could think of! https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/jito0e/having_no_internet_was_the_scariest_thing_i_could/
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Animatronic Pumpkin Using 3D Printed Arduino Animatronic Eye Mechanism
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Ey6nUZm5gYI
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Alice Cooper – Welcome To My Nightmare (Official Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDTwL15ZHZs
It’s nightmare season! Get ready for Halloween with Alice Cooper’s “Welcome To My Nightmare” and list YOUR nightmares
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Make This Halloween A Spider-Stomping Good Time
https://hackaday.com/2021/09/30/make-this-halloween-a-spider-stomping-good-time/
We can count on one hand the number of times that we haven’t needed a coat on Halloween night around here. Even if it was fair and sunny the day before, you can count on Halloween being appropriately windy, cold, and spooky. Trick-or-treating only keeps a kid so warm, and we would have loved to happen upon a house with a spider-stomping sugar-burning good time of a game going on in the driveway.
https://github.com/KyleMaas/Spider_Stomping_Game
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How To Build A Smart Fog Machine with a Raspberry Pi
By Ryder Damen 6 days ago
Make a Raspberry-Pi powered, person detecting fog machine
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/raspberry-pi-smart-fog-machine
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https://realfood.tesco.com/step-by-step/how-to-make-spider-cookies.html
https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/chocolate-chip-spider-cookies/
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Eye have a feeling this pumpkin will creep out your trick-or-treaters.
Every jack-o’-lantern needs a pair of animatronic eyes
https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/10/31/every-jack-o-lantern-needs-a-pair-of-animatronic-eyes/