Hackaday’s Halloween Hackfest | Hackaday.io

45 projects

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

Jump Scare Tombstone

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!

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

Giving a new life to some awesome hardware

2014 iMac 5k Repurposed

red-sy-reconn Red Sy Reconn

Swallow is an easy to use systems programming language with python-like syntax. Repo - https://github.com/Swallow-lang/swallow

The Swallow Programming Language

saptak-bhoumik Saptak Bhoumik

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

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

An eyeball that watches you, using Kinect

allpartscombined

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

Ghost with blinking eyes done with a 555 timer

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

Advanced Analog Pumpkin Lamp

gregor-ruf Gregor Ruf

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

Decoration Control

kody-alan-rogers Kody Alan Rogers

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

'Off the Shelf' Halloween Animatronics

A chain of LED lit pumpkins interactively activated by a motion sensor.

Pumpkin-O-Chain

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

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

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

Automatic Halloween Candy Dispenser

a Light show in a skull

Santa Muerte without makeup

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

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

2021 Hackaday Prize

JEC - Just another electronic clock?

JEC - Just another electronic clock?

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

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

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

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