Frankenstein Neck Electrical Studs

So this year Kayla decided she wanted to be Frankenstein's Monster's bride. She picked out the hair and used one of her dresses, and while the bride doesn't have the neck studs in the movies, I thought it would be a nice tough to make it more easily recognizable.

I started out with a scrap of leather, 1/2" PVC end caps, some chrome paint and super glue. I painted the end caps and had Kayla blow dry them as we were in a hurry.

When then filed the bases of the end caps flat to help give them a better gluing surface. We put the strap around her neck and marked it for where to place the velcro and studs, then glued them in to place with the superglue (either superglue or hot glue seems to end up in most of my projects :-S). I also drew some stitches on the strap for kicks.

I think it turned out pretty nice and she was happy with it. Should be fun to see what they want to do next year! :-). Jenny should be getting pictures of the kids up on duttonlabs sometime soon for more pics of the kids.

Scary Pumpkin!

So on a whim on Sunday morning I decided to remake the Scariest Pumpkin Ever as seen in Make Magazine. I didn't want to spend too much time on it as it would be dissassembled shortly after creating it so just used a little breadboard to make most of the connections. I took these photoes of the dissassembly as I didn't take any putting it together.

Crammed the Ooga horn inside the pumpkin, just barely fit. I had to take it out once during assembly because I pulled out a bunch of wires from the breadboard while fitting it in.

I put the electronic bits (Arduino, Solid State Relay) into a little box to keep them from getting too wet.

And here is a decent pic of the electronics. I put duct tape around the breadboard to keep the wires from pulling out again.

And finally a video. I was out with the girls trick or treating so wasn't able to witness most of the scares, but Jenny said that everyone that tried it really liked it or really didn't for some of the younger ones :-D. I wish I had set a video camera on it all night long to get the reactions, maybe I'll have to work something up next year for that :-).