Halloween 2002 - A battery pack and switch connected to a simple geared motor box. Metal Hangers were hot-glued on to the contraption and stuffed sweat pants were placed on top of them. The resulting effect was a realistic-looking pair of dangling legs emerging from the ground.

Moving Feet Mechanism 1

Halloween 2002 - A Logitech QuickCam Express connected to a K'nex Motor with conveniently placed K'nex pieces. Switching the polarity of the battery pack can pan the camera either right or left. I added a Halogen lamp, well, because I could.

Note the RB on the front of the gadget. The "R" stands for my name and the "B" stands for Blake, who assisted in building the device, as well as a lot of the halloween preparation.

Summer 2002 -Who hasn't had the idea to attatch a wireless camera to a remote-controlled car. We bought the camera and trasmitter from Intellicam Systems for about $100 a piece. The original car was a Ford-F150 from Radio Shack, which I ended up modifying quite a bit.

Video Equipment and Car 1 | 2 | 3

Halloween 2002...Present -This is the control panel we've used to manage the Halloween scenes for the past few years. It was a serious project and took an entire spring break to complete. It contains 2 fog timer/remotes, 12 switches, 3 lights, 8 RCA-style connections, and a whole mess of wiring.

Control Panel 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Summer 2004 -A combination of a wireless transmitter, infrared camera, and air-cooled box. The device uses a 9V DC current for the transmitter and camera and 3V DC for the fan.

Camera 1 | 2 | 3    Schematic 1