Hackaday’s Halloween Hackfest | Hackaday.io

45 projects

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

Pumpkin solder kit badge

Giving a new life to some awesome hardware

2014 iMac 5k Repurposed

red-sy-reconn Red Sy Reconn

An Arduino shield designed to turn on and off small holiday decorations.

Decoration Control

kody-alan-rogers Kody Alan Rogers

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

Interactive Halloween Book

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

A cable-cam-inspired robot to fly a witch, or other lightweight ghoul, over unwary tricksters.

Witch-on-a-Wire Cable Bot

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

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

It's an eyeball. It watches you. Spooky.

An eyeball that watches you, using Kinect

allpartscombined

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

RC Nightmare Delivery Service, Open For Business. Motorizing Various Animated Halloween Characters.

RC "Hell Rider and Blair the Witch" for Halloween

2021 Hackaday Prize

Obtaining access to a drone which is currently set to communicate with android application, allowing custom software to be built for it.

Obtaining Control of JXD523 : the $20 drone

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

The 12ft skeleton (Skelly) from Home Depot is an impressive decoration, but needs an extra kick to make it truly incredible!!!

3-Axis Skull Mod for 12ft Skeleton

nelson-bairos Nelson Bairos

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 could have done that with a 555 timer!" Oh wait, it is.

Ghost with blinking eyes done with a 555 timer

After visiting a local Halloween store, I thought it would be cool to create my own interactive scary cat with lights, sound, and movement.

Fear the Scary Cat!

Salem is an adaptation of the popular "ghost" detector

Salem

matthew-mccardle Matthew McCardle

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

Scary sounds included and foot-operated. Halloween Candy Dispenser that meets all social distancing requirements.

Automatic Halloween Candy Dispenser

This creepy old tombstone will reveal its evil soul when you approach too close!

Jump Scare Tombstone

2021 Hackaday Prize

Bringing an AAPN95 gumball machine into the digital age

Retrofitted IoT Gumball Machine

andrew-garber Andrew Garber

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

Pumpkin-O-Chain

Computer Head Costume with 16x16 LED Matrix, Raspberry Pi, and Espeak

Computer Head Costume

Skye Rutan-bedard