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Gadget Freak Scream Fest Edition

By Design News Staff -- Design News, October 12, 2006


Amp up the spookiness quotient at your house this Halloween by donning a lab coat, getting out your soldering iron and some duct tape, and building the gadgets below! Each project includes a parts list, schematic, and complete build instructions. (Rubber spiders and vampire teeth not included.) 
Happy Hauntings!

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Spooky Sound Generator


Give the little witches and warlocks a real trick when they come clamoring for treats on Halloween with this doorbell-activated sound track. With a moderate hack of a cassette player and a roof-mounted speaker, you’ll have trick-or-treaters scattering in every direction at the first blood-curdling scream.

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Lightning Strobe


Create an instant dark and stormy night at your house on Halloween with this photoflash strobe project. Sync up a thunder audio track with the common strobe design and impress your stuffy neighbors with some very uncommon special effects.

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Flickering LED Pumpkin Light


Carved pumpkins and Halloween go together, but why risk the hazard of a lit candle in an unattended squash? Produce a realistic, flickering flame effect with this timer circuit driving two, ultra-bright orange LEDs. Your local fire department will applaud you!

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Fading LED Monster Eyes


Partial to things that go bump in the night? Create your own creature extraordinaire with this circuit, which slowly illuminates and fades a pair of red LEDs for a chilling optical effect. Pair it up with a stuffed moose head for a particularly memorable special effect this Halloween.

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