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Audio

• $5 MP3 Player
  • The $5 mp3 player
  • Wolfstone Dissection
  • Controlling the mp3 player with a Prop-1 Controller
• Plans for builting a 10 second digital sound player
• Audacity - FREE Open Source Audio Editor
• Essentials of Audacity [pdf]

Bones, Skulls, and Skeletons

• Anatomical.com Excellent resource for bones, etc.
• Bone Supply Warehouse Ebay Store Great prices on Anatomical.com "bone" goods.
• ^[new] Hard Foam Skulls @ Fright Catalog (love these things...)
• ^[new] Box of 9 Hard Foam Skulls @ Fright Catalog (save $5)

Cemeteries

I enjoy photographing cemeteries, and they also give me great ideas for gravestones and other props for halloween, so here are links to some of my photo sets on Flickr from some of the cemeteries I have photographed.

• Unnamed Cemetery, Townshend, VT
• Misc. Cemeteries in New Orleans, LA
• Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI (H.P. Lovecraft is buried here)

Coffins

• Ghosts of Halloween's Grave Coffin
• PIC Controlled Coffin

Conventions/Gathering

• The New England Gathering of Haunters

Corpses corpses corpses!

• Spooky Blue's most excellent corpsing HOW-TO (made two of them in '06)
• ^[new] Ghost Ride Productions
  • ^[new] BUCKY LIDS Probably one of the best products I have seen to date. Latex coverings that fit over skulls. so sweet.

Design & Simulation Software

• BooPack Software 4 Bar Simulator, Wing Designer/Simulator, Triangle Grid System Designer, and Sound Board Application

Flying Crank Ghost (FCG)

• The original design from Phantasmechanics
  • Marionette Instructions

Fog

• $24 Ultrasonic Mister with Halogen light (colors are changeable)
• The Chemistry of Fog

^[new]Gravestones

• ^[new] How to get 7-8 Gravestones out of one 4x8 sheet of foam...Impressive.

Lighting

• Fantastic lighting HOW-TO from Skull and Bone
• Low Cost lighting and other DJ-type equipment (including foggers)
• Phantasmmechanics Flicker circuit
• Cheap and Easy Flicker circuit
• Blinking LED Eyes project by Spooky Blue
• Ghosts of Halloween's 2005 Haunt pics Great lighting setup
• Using LED's in your Haunt
• Color Organ
  • Kit 12 Audio-To-Light Modulator

^[new]Mailing Lists / Discussion Boards

• ^[new] Creep Crafters Yahoo group
• ^[new] Technical Insanity Yahoo group
• ^[new] Halloween-L

Micro-Controllers

• Assembly of the Kit74 Version 1
• Prop-1 Controller Information and Programming
  • EFX-TEK PROP-1 Controller
  • Wolfstone Microcontroller Pages
  • BASIC Stamp Editor from Parallax
  • $0.95 cent ULN2803 Chips for the PROP-1
  • Vern Graner's PROP-1 Projects Page
  • ^[new] Prop-1 Related link page including several projects
  • ^[new] Controlling a fogger with a PROP-1
• ^[new] Beginner's Guide to Haunting with a Stamp Microcontroller

PIR Sensor

• PIR Sensor
• Scary Terry's PIR Sensor Report
• PIR Sensor Documentation
• PIR Sensor 3-pin connection cable for Prop-1 Controller

Pneumatics

• Evilusions - an excellent source for pneumatics hardware
• Phantasmmechanics - Haunting with Compressed Air (Part I)
• Phantasmmechanics - Haunting with Compressed Air (Part II)
• ^[new] Grave Jumper (using a 4-bar system)
• Pretty Damn Cheap Air Compressors
• Harbor Freight Surplus tools, air compressors, and more.

Servos

• Parallax (Futaba) Continuous Rotation Servo - $12.95

Soldering

• ^[new] Better Soldering - great tips on soldering techniques
• ^[new] DIY "Helping Hands" @ Instructables.com
• How To Solder @ Instructables.com
• Soldering 102: Soldering a jumper @ Instructables.com
• How To Solder: Beading @ Instructables.com
• Soldering underneath chips @ Instructables.com
• Soldering to large metal objects @ Instructables.com
• What not to do when soldering @ Instructables.com
• Proper Soldering Iron cleaning & maintenance @ Instructables.com
• Soldering 101: Lesson 1: Tin the Tip @ Instructables.com
• Picking a Soldering Iron @ Instructables.com

^[new] Technical / Mechanics WARNING! SCIENCE CONTENT

• ^[new] 4-Bar Linkage
• ^[new] Accordian Linkage
• ^[new] Excellent book on Animatronics

^[new] Web Shooters / Pneumatic Web Guns

• ^[new] How-To Build a Pneumatic Cob Web Gun @ Haunted Yards
• ^[new] Scary Terry's Hot Glue Gun Web Shooter

^[new] Wiper Motors

• ^[new] Scary Terry's Wiper Motor Information

Misc. Items (Supplies, etc.)

• $55 per 225 ft. rolls of jute netting
• American Science & Surplus (cheap plastic beakers "mad scientist lab"), and other goodies.
• Harbor Freight Surplus tools, air compressors, and more.
• Costumes-4-Less Great site with lots of prop odds and ends...
• Unbreakable Carnival/Fun House Mirrors

Other Sites - some of our favorite haunts, projects, and link sites

• Monster List of Halloween Projects
• Haunt Project - Your visual source for Haunting How-To's
• Village Haunt
• Pumpkin Rot
• Hallowed Haunting Grounds
• Skull and Bone
• Vile Things
• Brewster Yard Haunt
• Uncle Binley's Dungeon
• ^[new] The Dead End - Ghostess Deanna's Home Haunt Site
• ^[new] Halloween Prop-Master
• ^[new] Creepy Nights
• ^[new] Minion's Web Hallow-Links
• ^[new] Shadow Valley
• ^[new] The Raven's Barrow - Your Daily Dose of Darkness!
• ^[new] Fright Catalog
• ^[new] Devious Concoctions

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