It’s been a while

Posted by tuckie - 24/04/06 at 09:04:42 am

Yeah, I’ve kinda slouched off on the blog for a while; it’s been a busy semester for me. In terms of projects, I have a few that I have been dabbling with.

What has been taking up most my time as of late has been devising a remote controlled ignition device for this year’s Fourth of July. Using a 12 channel remote controlled relay board located here, I am in the process of rigging it to a 12 volt battery and putting it in a fancy enclosure. If anyone has ever used a model rocket kit, think of one of those electronic igniters, but with 12 channels, and a wireless controller.

I have also been doing a bit of work (not much at this point) with my wrt54g from fon. Right now I have openwrt installed on it (think mini linux) and have installed a kismet drone for wardriving.

Well, that’s it for now, hopefully things will pick up when the term is over.

April 24, 2006 | In General, Projects | No Comments

Posted by tuckie - 04/11/05 at 01:11:21 pm

Yes, it’s after the fact, and yes, I don’t have any pictures(there may be some floating around on a digital camera)–but, I thought I would elaborate a bit on my house’s setup this year.

I chose the main focal point to be placed upon the doorbell. I rigged up a relay to the doorbell in order to trip a couple things when pressed. Primarily, I had an old loud school bell rigged up in the bushes in front of the door. I also soldered on some wires to the play button of a remote control for my cd player. Speakers for the stereo were placed on either side of the door, both hidden. I made up a soundtrack of demonic laughing that alternated channels for added effect.

I also had a fog machine with a fan, blowing out of the garage that was open a crack. A blacklight was just inside the garage, with Tide (soap) thown about on the ground (it glows in the dark). My initial plan was to rig the blacklight to a motion sensor and have “chalk” outlines of bodies on the ground made from the Tide, but I ran out of time.

The front window also had a glow-in-the-dark skeleton that was illuminated through a blacklight. All of the front windows were lit by a well positioned strobe light, which looked really good for the little effort required.

For the pumpkin, I tried something completely different, a drowning pumpkin. The pumpkin a picked was a “ghost” pumpkin, and white in color. I took a black plastic tub and filled it with water. At the back of the pumpkin I drilled a hole for the tube rigged up to a bubbler (stolen from a fake fish tank). It was then lit using a glowstick (which lit it surprisingly well). It ended up working out great; it glowed well with bubbles coming out of its mouth.
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