It Came From the GARAGE OF EVIL!!

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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
Essentials of Audacity [pdf]
Free insect sounds from Music of Nature website
HedStorm.net Sound effects - vomiting, laughter, breathing, heartbeats, screams & cries
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

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

Cemeteries

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

Coffins

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
Vixen DIY Software for animation displays that supports plugins for the PROP-1 and a wide range of other controllers

Electronics

Actuating memory alloy wire Ok, this is just cool.
poor man's surface mount prototyping

Facades

Flying Crank Ghost (FCG)

Fog

Gravestones

Laser Effects

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

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

Misc. Items (Supplies, etc.)

$55 per 225 ft. rolls of jute netting
American Science & Surplus
Beef Netting
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

Online Games

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's HauntSpace Page
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-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
Lost Lake Cemetery
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

Pneumatics

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

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

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...