Make These Spoooky Masking Tape Mummy Hands
It couldn’t be easier to create these cool, creepy mummy hands from masking tape.
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Upgrade Your Evil Lair with 3D Printed Frankenstein Knife Switches
Have the corpse reanimation lab in top shape for Halloween with these decorative knife switches.
Hauntbox Prop Controller
The barrier between the average Joe and a fully automated haunted house just got lowered.
DIY Hacks & How To’s: Haunted House Automation With Pressure Plates
One of the best parts of a haunted house is the automated special effects. To make sure that the effects are well timed, you need sensors to detect where your guests are in the haunted house. Over the next few weeks I am going to show you a variety of simple sensors that you can use to automate your Halloween setup. This week I am going to show you how to make a simple DIY pressure plate switch to automate your haunted house.
DIY Hacks & How To’s: Pepper’s Ghost Illusion
Pepper’s Ghost is a special effects technique for creating transparent ghostly images. This technique has been a staple of theaters and haunted houses since John Pepper popularized it in the 1800’s. It works by reflecting an image of the ghost off of a sheet of plexiglass. The plexiglass is set at a 45 degree angle in front of the audience. At this angle the background remains clearly visible, but it also reflects a partial image of the ghost that is located off to one side.
How To: Haunted House Silhouettes
Turn your entire house into one oversized luminary by creating very large paper silhouettes for all of the windows.
Halloween Shadow Makers
Fire up the flashlight and have fun casting spooky shadows on the walls with these shadow makers.
