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

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

Decoration Control

kody-alan-rogers Kody Alan Rogers

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

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

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

Advanced Analog Pumpkin Lamp

gregor-ruf Gregor Ruf

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

Interactive Halloween Book

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

An eyeball that watches you, using Kinect

allpartscombined

A 3 axis skull mimics the movements of a person wearing a baseball-cap mounted Inertial Measurement Unit and wireless communications

Yorick the Mimic

aspiring-roboticist Aspiring Roboticist

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

Jump Scare Tombstone

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

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

Spooky duck skeleton for halloween

AfraidOfDarkness

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

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

Automatic Halloween Candy Dispenser

Stranger Things themed desktop board / word clock

Stranger Board

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

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

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

'Off the Shelf' Halloween Animatronics

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

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

This project will count the number of pieces of candy that are dropped into your child's candy basket!

Halloween Candy Counter

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

RC "Hell Rider and Blair the Witch" for Halloween

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

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

Pumpkin solder kit badge