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DIY Hacks & How To’s: Haunted House Automation With Pressure Plates

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.

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Ready, Set, Repeat After Me!

Ready, Set, Repeat After Me!

The Repeat After Me: A Mintronics Memory Game project is a throwback to the era of Simon and Pocket Repeat. Even more than 30 years after its initial release, this electronic game remains a hit.

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A Micro Relay at Work

A Micro Relay at Work

The fundamentals of switching in GIF format! See a 5V micro relay switch from normally-closed to normally-open and back to normally-closed.

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Monkey Hacking on Weekend Projects

Monkey Hacking on Weekend Projects

Turn a cymbal-banging monkey into a couch guardian to stop furballs from shedding on your favorite furniture.

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Use OR Logic to Build a Game Show Circuit

Use OR Logic to Build a Game Show Circuit

Weekend Projects maker Max shows off his version of Game Show Buttons, based on Experiment #21 from Charles Platt’s book Make: Electronics.

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Large Rocker Switch Array Says “Hello World”

Large Rocker Switch Array Says “Hello World”

I sure hope Valentin Ruhry took advantage of his electronic component distributor’s volume discount to create Hello World, a site-specific installation made of 4,750 (by my calculation) illuminating rocker switches. The piece is currently on display as part of an exhibition called Fünf Räume at The Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City until September […]

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