Hackaday’s Halloween Hackfest | Hackaday.io

43 projects

A motion activated sound clip player in a box which can be mounted at the house entrance to scare the kids who come to trick or treat.

Scare-O-Matic

Scary sounds included and foot-operated. Halloween Candy Dispenser that meets all social distancing requirements.

Automatic Halloween Candy Dispenser

I converted an old Macintosh to allow a tablet to charge wirelessly inside. Making a Mac-O'-Lantern for Halloween made perfect sense.

Mac-O'-Lantern for Halloween

RC Nightmare Delivery Service, Open For Business. Motorizing Various Animated Halloween Characters.

RC "Hell Rider and Blair the Witch" for Halloween

The 2018 Hackaday Prize

The IoT Machine-Guard is capable of guarding electrical machines, it tracks temperature, vibration, sound, smoke, and current values.

IoT Machine-Guard

khairey-nouhe Khairey Nouhe

This creepy old tombstone will reveal its evil soul when you approach too close!

Jump Scare Tombstone

It's an eyeball. It watches you. Spooky.

An eyeball that watches you, using Kinect

allpartscombined

2021 Hackaday Prize

Bringing an AAPN95 gumball machine into the digital age

Retrofitted IoT Gumball Machine

andrew-garber Andrew Garber

There has been a catastrophic event in the industrial zone and there is only one person who can save it, will he succeed?

Chernobyl Style Liquidator Costume

Giving a new life to some awesome hardware

2014 iMac 5k Repurposed

red-sy-reconn Red Sy Reconn

Computer Head Costume with 16x16 LED Matrix, Raspberry Pi, and Espeak

Computer Head Costume

Skye Rutan-bedard

A programmable and simple to build Tesla Coil (SSTC) that runs from low voltage, ideal for use in cosplay weapons and small props.

Programmable SSTC

richard Richard

I made an uncanny eye pendant, which is scary at first sight. In the pendant, a real-looking eye mimics a real human eye which looks cool.

Uncanny Eye Pendant with ESP8266 and TFT display F

vishal-soni vishal soni

This is a safety coffin grave bell. If buried alive, you pull the string to ring the bell, and hope someone digs you out.

Safety Coffin Grave Bell

"I could have done that with a 555 timer!" Oh wait, it is.

Ghost with blinking eyes done with a 555 timer

Zero is Jack Skellington's dog from the Halloween/Christmas movie Nightmare Before Christmas. I'm hoping to build a semi-animatronic version

Zero, the Nightmare Before Christmas dog

kenneth-zaborny Kenneth Zaborny

After visiting a local Halloween store, I thought it would be cool to create my own interactive scary cat with lights, sound, and movement.

Fear the Scary Cat!

Halloween Ghost Writer Project. Connect via Wifi and send sequences to be "Spirit Written" on a dusty surface. Scare Kids

Ghost writing Halloween Project using Ultrasonic

My daughter wanted a soldering kit but couldn't find a Halloween one so we made our own together.

Pumpkin solder kit badge

a Light show in a skull

Santa Muerte without makeup

A lamp and loudspeaker in a pumpkin controlled by music or voice.

Advanced Analog Pumpkin Lamp

gregor-ruf Gregor Ruf

2021 Hackaday Prize

Fully 3D-printable hydraulics for all your robotics projects

3D-printable double helical gear pump watertight

brian-brocken Brian Brocken

2021 Hackaday Prize

I hacked apart The Child plush toy from the Mandalorian and added a robotic core.

The Child: Animatronic hack of Baby Yoda plush toy

kevin-harrington Kevin Harrington

The 12ft skeleton (Skelly) from Home Depot is an impressive decoration, but needs an extra kick to make it truly incredible!!!

3-Axis Skull Mod for 12ft Skeleton

nelson-bairos Nelson Bairos