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Thanks to Jason LeSueur Tatum in the Chicago Haunt Builders’ Facebook group for some helpful tips about potential limitations and issues that I might run into and how to avoid them! The Design – The cemetery I hope that this will remove the need for any additional sound sources by allowing my props to provide the ambient sound for the various areas of my haunt. This design allows for an ambient sound as well as a ‘scare’ sound that plays when the sensor input is triggered.
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None of my planned props needs more than 2 – a solenoid or motor and a light. The 4-Banger has the capability to control four 12V channels. The design I plan to start with is the 4-Banger. (In theory, at least – we’ll see whether all of my components survive the learning process without needing to be replaced. Three of each component so that I can build three prop controllers at a cost of about $20 each.
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I haven’t decided yet if this will be pneumatic or a motor of some sort. The lid will rattle when another sensor is tripped. I plan to make it look as though the coffin is protruding from the ground at an angle, still partially buried, with dirt around the base. The prop controllers I’m planning to use should be able to trigger the scarecrow, a sound effect and a light. When the scarecrow is triggered the same pneumatic mechanism could bend apart a few stalks so the scarecrow seems to be coming out of the field. I would like to have the corn thick enough in front of the scarecrow to obscure sight of it. A pneumatic scarecrow lunger hiding in the corn that’s triggered by a sensor.
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Just in case, I have a fallback plan for something simpler, like this: Not as exciting as the full field with path, but probably more feasible. I’m realizing that my hope for avoiding off-site storage may not survive this portion of the project. Making progress on that first prop and visiting local haunts this week have re-ignited my enthusiasm for the project, and I hope that I can keep it going this year so that I have more to show by Halloween, 2018.Ĭovering the area I’m planning on could take up to 25 pallets. (My stretch goal is to build one based on a Raspberry Pi as well.) Home-built prop controller s based on Arduinos.Several carved foam props, even if they’re simple tombstones.At least one prop driven by a wiper motor.One lid-banger coffin, TBD whether it is driven by pneumatics or a motor.One pneumatic ‘lunger’ type prop with synchronized light and sound.I won’t fill porch to street but I don’t want my props to look like islands, either. Cover a respectable portion of the front yard.No cheese! This one might be the hardest part for me my technical skills are pretty good but I am NOT an artist. Shoot for quality rather than quantity.A strong theme that unifies everything in the haunt.To revisit my goals from last November – four are at least partially met, but that leaves me plenty to shoot for by next year. The past six weeks or so have seen quite a bit of work on one animated prop that will be ready for this Halloween night – more details on this in the next post. Though I have fallen far short of the goals I set last year, that’s not to say that nothing has happened. We’re hoping to make it to the haunts in Carol Stream next week! We found all of them through the Chicago Haunt Builders‘ annual home haunt list. This week my family and I visited Haunt 31, Halloween Town, Alien Infestation, and the Westbury Manor & Cemetery in Algonquin. None of the planned farmhouse haunt has materialized yet. My ambitious plans for this Halloween were waaaay too ambitious.