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Animatronics

• Build a Talking Skull @ Instructables
• How to create simple animatronics part one: using the MAKE controller
• Realistic, Animatronic Lion Mask with stereo night vision and amplified hearing
• Simple Animatronics @ Instructables

Audio

• The GARAGE OF EVIL's Halloween Sounds Archive
• Audacity - FREE Open Source Audio Editor
• Controlling the Cheap $5 mp3 player from MPJA with a Prop-1 Controller
• Convert YouTube Videos to Audio
• Dave's Halloween Sounds
• Essentials of Audacity [pdf]
• Free insect sounds from Music of Nature website
• HedStorm.net Sound effects - vomiting, laughter, breathing, heartbeats, screams & cries
• Michael Hedstrom Haunt Audio
• Plans for builting a 10 second digital sound player
• Sinister Sonics Haunt sounds, sound effects loops
• The Cheap $5 mp3 player from MPJA
• VMusic2 MP3 Player Microcontroller-controllable MP3 Player (under $40)
• Wolfstone Dissection of the Cheap $5 mp3 player from MPJA

Blacklights

• 13 Watt Compact Fluorescent Blacklight for $10
• 400w UV lights
• Compact Flourescent Blacklights
• More 400w UV lights
• Risk Reactor Fluorescent UV Dyes

Bones, Skulls, and Skeletons

• Box of 9 Hard Foam Skulls @ Fright Catalog
• Hard Foam Skulls @ Fright Catalog (love these things...)
• Sketch of a simple way to pose a Bucky skeleton from Skull & Bone

Books of the Horror Genre

• Autumn by David Moody Free eBook download about post apocalypic survivors, oh, and reanimated zombies.

Calculators and Converters

• Capacitor Information, Converters and Calculators
• Cylinder Force, Bore Size, Air Valve Sizing, Tank Free Air, and CFM Calculators
• Electronics calculators and tools for the Palm OS
• Electronics Converters and Calculators
• LED (Multiple) Circuit Power And Series Resistor Calculator
• LED (Single) Circuit Power And Series Resistor Calculator
• LED Resistor Calculator
• LUMENS to MCD converter
• MCD to LUMENS converter
• Online Media Converter Lots of Audio, Video & Document Types
• Pneumatic Calculators for Area, Energy, Flow, Length, Pressure, Velocity, Volume and Weight
• RC Time Constant Calculator
• Resistance Array 5% Tolerance Calculator
• Resistance, Capacitance, Voltage, And Time Calculator
• Resistor Color Code Table And Calculator
• Series Resistance Calculator
• Standard Resistor Values Less Than 100 Ohms
• Standard Resistor Values Less Than 100 Ohms Calculator
• Transformer Values Calculator
• Voltage Divider Calculator
• Voltage Drop Calculator

Cemeteries

• Association for Gravestone Studies
• Cedar Hill Cemetery
• Connecticut Gravestone Network
• Flickr Group - Graves, Tombs and Cemeteries
• Flickr Group - Graveyards
• Flickr Group - memento mori
• Flickr Group - New England Cemeteries
• Flickr Group - Visitors of Cemeteries
• Informational Cemetery Links
• Misc. Cemeteries in New Orleans, LA
• Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI (H.P. Lovecraft is buried here)
• Tombstone Transcription Project
• Unnamed Cemetery, Townshend, VT

Coffins

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

Conventions/Gatherings

• Eastern Haunters Convention Pennsylvania
• Great Lakes Fright Fest Michigan
• HauntCon Midwest
• Midwest Haunter's Convention Midwest
• The New England Gathering of Haunters Northeast

Corpses corpses corpses!

• BUCKY LIDS Probably one of the best products I have seen to date. Latex coverings that fit over skulls. so sweet.
• Rising Spirits - with animation
• Rising Spirits by Dave the Dead
• Spooky Blue's most excellent corpsing HOW-TO

Design & Simulation Software

• BooPack Software
• Free online floor planning software (haunt design)
• Google Sketchup Google's (Free) 3D Modelling Tool
• Online 4 Bar Simulator
• Vixen DIY Software for animation displays that supports plugins for the PROP-1 and a wide range of other controllers

Electronics

• 2 Channel Remote RF Relay Board and Transmitter
• Actuating memory alloy wire Ok, this is just cool.
• poor man's surface mount prototyping

Facades

• 2-D Mausoleaum
• Boarded up windows using foam insulation board
• Boarded up windows using scrap wood
• Faux Wood Shelves
• Ghostess Deanna's Video Tutorial on Weathering and Mildewing
• Great collection of faux finishes from about.com
• How to build a cemetary entrace for your haunt
• PVC Cemetery fence Great mangled wrought iron look
• Unpleasant Street's Picket Fence Crate
• World's Smallest Haunted House

Flying Crank Ghost (FCG)

• Marionette Instructions
• The original design from Phantasmechanics

Fog

• $10 Fog Chiller @ Instructables
• $24 Ultrasonic Mister with Halogen light (colors are changeable)
• 3000w fogger when 1500w just isn't enough...
• Biohazard Beer Barrel Fogger
• Care and feeding of fog machines @ Instructables
• Chauvet 1500w Flex Fogger
• How not to use fog juice.......
• How the Vortex Chiller Works (Instruction Manual)
• Martin/Jem HYDRA 1500-Watt Dual DMX Fog Generator
• Natural smoke/fog distribution system
• The Chemistry of Fog
• The Ultimate budget ($8.20) Fog Chiller @ Instructables

Gravestones

• Celtic Cross Headstone
• Circle Cross Headstone
• Fantastic lighting HOW-TO from Skull and Bone
• How to get 7-8 Gravestones out of one 4x8 sheet of foam
• Poe Headstone
• Rest In Peace Headstone
• Shipwheel Headstone

Laser Effects

• "Pocket" Laser Light Show
• 5mw Green Laser
• 5mw Green Laser another one...
• Laser Pumpkin
• Laser Vortex 2.0 - Starburst Vortex
• Laser Vortex HOW-TO @ Instructables

Lighting

• Blinking LED Eyes project by Spooky Blue
• Cheap and Easy Flicker circuit
• Commercial Dimmers
• Commercial Fake Lightning Products
• Ghosts of Halloween's 2005 Haunt pics
• Kit 12 Audio-To-Light Modulator
• LED Spot Lights
• Phantasmmechanics Flicker circuit
• Skull And Bone Lighting Tutorial Lighting on a budget
• The Basic Principles of Lighting
• Times Square Lighting
• Using LED's in your Haunt
• Virtual LED Museum Probably the only LED resource you will ever need.
• Yet another flicker circuit HOW-TO

Mailing Lists / Discussion Boards

• GARAGE OF EVIL!! Mailing List and DIY Haunt Discussions It's so EVIL, it's cool.
• Curious Inventer Soldering Forum
• Florida Home Haunters
• Halloween-L
• Haunt Forum
• Massachusetts Make & Take Group
• Technical Insanity Yahoo group

Metal Working

• All About Screws
• Basics of Metal Working Some basics of working with metal along with demonstrations of useful tools.
• Decimal Sizes for Numbered and Lettered Drills
• Guide to Drill Speeds
• Guide to Tap Drill Sizes

Micro-Controllers

• $0.95 cent ULN2803 Chips for the PROP-1
• Assembling and controlling the kit-74
• Assembly of the Kit74 Version 1
• BASIC Stamp Editor from Parallax
• Beginner's Guide to Haunting with a Stamp Microcontroller
• Collection of Prop-1 Programming Links
• Controlling a fogger with a PROP-1
• EFX-TEK PROP-1 Controller
• How to build a solid-state controller @ Instructables
• Parallax Servo Controller (USB)
• Prop-1 Programming Template
• Prop-1 Related link page including several projects
• Prop-2 Programming Template
• Prop-SX Programming Template
• Using the Vixen software to control sequencing for a Prop-1
• Using Vixen as a Prop Programmer
• Vern Graner's PROP-1 Projects Page
• Vixen Driver for the Prop-1
• Vixen Driver for the Prop-2
• Wolfstone Microcontroller Pages

Misc. Items (Supplies, etc.)

• $55 per 225 ft. rolls of jute netting
• American Science & Surplus
• Beef Netting
• Broadmoor Landscape Jute - 4' x 225' roll - $65 | S.F. Bay area
• Calculate Sun Rise & Set for Halloween 2007 (Farmer's Almanac)
• Costumes-4-Less
• Harbor Freight
• Hot Blood Stix Use your glue gun to apply fake blood to props
• Unbreakable Carnival/Fun House Mirrors

Molding and Casting

• Cheap DIY plastic vacuum former
• Molding Skulls with ‘Dragon Skin’ By DeadSpider
• Mr. Hemlock Dench
• Zombie Crawler Head By DeadSpider

Online Games

• A Murder of Scarecrows
• De-Animator Great simple shoot 'em up zombie flash game
• Dead Frontier - Night II
• Dead of Night
• Exmortis
• Exmortis 2
• What are your chances of surviving a zombie apocalypse? Not a game, but good quiz to figure out how you will fare in the likely event of a zombie apocalypse, like going to the mall with your wife.

Other Sites - Haunts, Projects, and Link Sites

• The GARAGE OF EVIL!! Network
• Brewster Yard Haunt
• Creepy Nights
• Curious Inventer Blog Tips and How-To's for Soldering, Metal Working, and other workshop goodness
• Devious Concoctions
• Everything Sinister Where Dark Art, Horror and Halloween Collide!
• FrightFX
• Gothic Nightmare
• Grim Visions
• Hallowed Haunting Grounds
• Halloween Prop Shop
• Halloween Prop-Master
• Haunt Project - Your visual source for Haunting How-To's
• Haunted Labyrinth Cool local haunt in Cranston, RI, which we're helping them on a few projects this year, as well as they are playing our song
• Minion's Web
• Minion's Web Hallow-Links
• Monster List of Halloween Projects
• Pumpkin Rot
• Shadow Valley
• Skull and Bone
• The Dead End - Ghostess Deanna's Home Haunt Site
• The Raven's Barrow - Your Daily Dose of Darkness!
• Uncle Binley's Dungeon
• Unpleasant Street
• Vile Things
• Village Haunt
• Wolfstone Haunt Great technical resource site

Paper Mache

• Stolloween Paper Mache Tutorial

Pneumatics

• Converting A Propane Tank For Compressed Air
• Grave Jumper (using a 4-bar system)
• Phantasmmechanics - Haunting with Compressed Air (Part I)
• Phantasmmechanics - Haunting with Compressed Air (Part II)
• Using fire extinguishers for compressed air (warpig.com thread)
• Using fire extinguishers for compressed air (ASME thread)

Programs and Projects for the Prop-X

• Animated Grave Digger
• Banging Mausoleum
• Crate Beast using AP-8 and Prop-1
• Haunt control using the Prop-SX
• Lighting (FC-4) and Audio (uMP3) control using the Prop-1
• Prop-1 Controlled Bulb Sign
• Prop-1 Controlled Fogger (Wolfstone)
• Prop-1 Controlled Fogger (Unpleasant Street)
• Simulated Lightning and sound generator
• Wind and Weather House Effects

Sensors

• Mat Switches (commercial) from McMaster
• Mat Switches HOW-TO
• PING))) Ultrasonic Sensor
• PIR Sensor
• PIR Sensor 3-pin connection cable for Prop-1 Controller
• PIR Sensor Documentation
• Quick & Easy Sensor Plates @ Instructables
• Scary Terry's PIR Sensor Report

Servos

• 180 degree Servo Stretcher Now you can have 180°+ rotation from just about any analog servo. The Servo Stretcher modifies the signal to the servo enabling it to rotate up to 90°+ either direction off of the center (neutral) position....
• Parallax (Futaba) Continuous Rotation Servo - $12.95

Soldering

• Better Soldering - great tips on soldering techniques
• Build some helping hands from a load of old junk @ Instructables
• Curious Inventer Soldering Forum
• DIY "Helping Hands" @ Instructables.com
• How To Solder @ Instructables.com
• How to Solder Correctly - and Why
• How To Solder: Beading @ Instructables.com
• Picking a Soldering Iron @ Instructables.com
• Proper Soldering Iron cleaning & maintenance @ Instructables.com
• Soldering 101: Lesson 1: Tin the Tip @ Instructables.com
• Soldering 102: Soldering a jumper @ Instructables.com
• Soldering to large metal objects @ Instructables.com
• Soldering underneath chips @ Instructables.com
• Surface Mount Soldering Guide
• What not to do when soldering @ Instructables.com

Special Effects

• Boney the Grave Ghost Pepper's Ghost effect

Technical / Mechanics

• 4-Bar Linkage
• Accordian Linkage
• Banish Those "Wall Warts" With Power Over Ethernet
• Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (KMODDEL) KMODDL is a collection of mechanical models and related resources for teaching the principles of kinematics--the geometry of pure motion. The core of KMODDL is the Reuleaux Collection of Mechanisms and Machines, an important collection of 19th-century...

Vendors - Bones, Skulls, and Skeletons

• Anatomical.com Excellent resource for bones, etc.
• Bone Supply Warehouse Ebay Store Great prices on Anatomical.com "bone" goods.
• Bucky's Boneyard

Vendors - Electronics

• All Electronics
• EFX-TEK Haunt Controllers (makers of the Prop-1)
• Jameco Electronics
• Marlin P. Jones & Associates
• Parallax, Inc. BASIC Stamps, servos, sensors, etc. for Micro-Controllers
• Ramsey Electronics kits

Vendors - Lighting & DJ Equipment

• American DJ
• Chauvet
• Elation
• Great American Marketing
• Low Cost lighting and other DJ-type equipment (including foggers)
• Martin
• MBT International
• Rosco
• Visual Effects, Inc.

Vendors - Molding and Casting

• Smooth-On Products

Vendors - Pneumatics

• Air Cylinders Direct Cheap and NEW Air Cylinders
• Evilusions Pneumatics
• Harbor Freight Tools, Hardware, Pneumatic Components
• Pretty Damn Cheap Air Compressors

Vendors - Props & Prop-Making Supplies

• Art Stuf A B expanding rigid and flexible foams, 1" EPS, casting supplies, etc
• Fright Catalog
• Ghost Ride Productions
• Halloween Outlet - HUGE Halloween Prop and Costume Store Worcester, MA
• Monster Guts
• Specter Studios Realistic props, masks, and more.
• Spirit Halloween Superstores

WARNING: Science Content

• Bernoulli's principle
• Planck's law of black-body radiation
• Stefan-Boltzmann law of black-body radiation
• Venturi effect

Web Shooters / Pneumatic Web Guns

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

Welding

• Big Daddy Hands "Helping Hands" for Welding
• Welding @ Wikipedia

Wiper Motors

• "Leering" Skeleton over Grave using a Wiper Motor
• Cheap Christmas Reindeer Motors
• Inside the Trico Wiper Motor
• Scary Terry's Wiper Motor Information
• Using a Windshield Wiper Motor
• Wiper Motors @ How Stuff Works

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