Hackaday’s Halloween Hackfest | Hackaday.io

43 projects

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

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

2021 Hackaday Prize

Goals is to provide high quality network switching with existing low cost hardware, moving from hack to sustainable legacy free solutions.

Switcher: Managing unmanaged switches

henk-vergonet Henk Vergonet

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

Looking to create your own motor controlled Halloween animatronic project- but know nothing about motors!?

'Off the Shelf' Halloween Animatronics

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

Automatic Halloween Candy Dispenser

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

Giving a new life to some awesome hardware

2014 iMac 5k Repurposed

red-sy-reconn Red Sy Reconn

A Halloween book that is interactive with video, gifs, sounds, and keycaps.

Interactive Halloween Book

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!

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

a Light show in a skull

Santa Muerte without makeup

2021 Hackaday Prize

Obtaining access to a drone which is currently set to communicate with android application, allowing custom software to be built for it.

Obtaining Control of JXD523 : the $20 drone

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

Spooky duck skeleton for halloween

AfraidOfDarkness

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

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

Witch-on-a-Wire Cable Bot

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 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

An Arduino shield designed to turn on and off small holiday decorations.

Decoration Control

kody-alan-rogers Kody Alan Rogers

2021 Hackaday Prize

The project is an electrical and both mechenical. it is about to play music with DC Motors and Arduino Nano

Drum player

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

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

Ghost with blinking eyes done with a 555 timer