Hackaday’s Halloween Hackfest | Hackaday.io

43 projects

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 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

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

Pumpkin-O-Chain

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

Halloween Candy Counter

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

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

Bringing an AAPN95 gumball machine into the digital age

Retrofitted IoT Gumball Machine

andrew-garber Andrew Garber

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

a Light show in a skull

Santa Muerte without makeup

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

Interactive Halloween Book

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

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

JEC - Just another electronic clock?

JEC - Just another electronic clock?

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

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

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

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

Pumpkin solder kit badge

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

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

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

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

Animatronic Hand, Programmed with Leap Motion

allpartscombined

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

Advanced Analog Pumpkin Lamp

gregor-ruf Gregor Ruf