sksleton dog and concession stand

[crpalmer]

Halloween 2008 was the first year that we discovered that props can move.  Our theme this year was a Haunted Playground and for that we created 3 wiper motor props (swing, see-saw and kicking legs in a sandbox) and two prop-1 based props.

The first was a skeleton dog made from a Baxter skeleton (Anatomical Chart), a Scary Terry audio board (Cowlacious), AP-8 & PIR & Prop-1 (from here, of course) and a few servos.  A switch toggled between auto mode and manual mode.  In manual mode, two buttons triggered any of 3 different behaviours (attack, whine & happy dog) while automatic picked one of the three at random when triggered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxO20s7R7Qs

The second was a concession stand for the playground.  It was based on a talking skull, VMusic2 and Prop-1.  When triggered it turned on the lights in the concession stand, played an intro track and then played a series of random tracks followed by one of two finale tracks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbXSEpdKaN4

[youngti]

That is so cool, I was thinking about doing that for mine.  Unfortunately ran out of time and resources (Money).

[Desert_gold_hound]

I like the icecream man the best. The dog is realy cool also.

When he tells you to take your fingers off the glass would be realy cool if it used a touch sensor so that when it was actualy touched it would go off. QT113-D Touch Sensor would probaly do this for you.

If this is your first year I cant wait to see it in a few.

[livinlowe]

I agree, very well done!!