Hackaday’s Halloween Hackfest | Hackaday.io

43 projects

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

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

Automatic Halloween Candy Dispenser

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

Advanced Analog Pumpkin Lamp

gregor-ruf Gregor Ruf

Try to win a contest with a write up of the project for another contest. using bits from other projects? Why not

One Pumpkin to rule them all

A cable-cam-inspired robot to fly a witch, or other lightweight ghoul, over unwary tricksters.

Witch-on-a-Wire Cable Bot

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

2021 Hackaday Prize

Bringing an AAPN95 gumball machine into the digital age

Retrofitted IoT Gumball Machine

andrew-garber Andrew Garber

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

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

Pumpkin solder kit badge

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

An eyeball that watches you, using Kinect

allpartscombined

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

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 animatronic hand can be controlled with Leap Motion to create realistic movements.

Animatronic Hand, Programmed with Leap Motion

allpartscombined

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

Stranger Things themed desktop board / word clock

Stranger Board

ChatterPi is a software package that turns a Raspberry Pi into a low-cost audio servo controller for talking props.

ChatterPi

aspiring-roboticist Aspiring Roboticist

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

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

Like the Sorting Hat from Harry Potter, you are judged and assigned to your own Level of Hell!

The Levels of Hell: Dante's Inferno 2.0

2021 Hackaday Prize

ChatGPT+Gemini+Claude | Open Source | ROS2 | Assembly within 1 hour | Quickstart

ChatGPT Robot Kit: Unlock your AI Dream Job

afreez-gan Afreez Gan

2021 Hackaday Prize

Use your Arduino, IN-12 and IN-15 nixie tubes and build BIG Binary Nixie Clock or Binary Thermometer & Hygrometer.

IN-12 IN-15 Big Binary Nixie Clock

marcin-saj Marcin Saj

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