Had this idea rattling in my head for at least a year, and though we're scaling well back this year, I still wanted to get this one built.
Had use it or lose it situation on my vacation, so taking a few days off and getting a couple hours to work in the new air conditioned shop in between plenty of house work that needed to be done. .
Idea is to actually have the wings detachable and assemble on sight.
LOL, I'm not sure which I'm ore impressed with - the prop or the air conditioned workshop! Here in Arizona, it's brutal to work on the garage during the summer (and late spring and early fall).
Sweet! I really look forward to your creations. I went back through your blog last year to see your previous year's stuff because I found your style really innovative and it was cool watching your haunt grow and change. I love how you get your whole block involved, it really brings out the spirit of Halloween. I'm excited to see what this year brings.
Test concept for attaching the wing frames. I need this to be move-able in pieces.
Concept was modeled on the tendon a bird's wing naturally has in roughly this location. I'm not sure it works for my plans though. Other options include a smaller rope off the first 'joint' in the wings, would go arcross the back and thus prevent them from rolling, which is the problem. If that fails, there's always a pin possibility.
I need to locate a lot more 'ugly branches' to cover the frame and make disjointed 'featerish' shapes on the wings.
Hi folks,
I'm trying to write Arduino code for essentially a 3-Axis skull. I followed the "Jawduino" build from ButtonBanger.com but I tweaked it to run from a PIR sensor. Now I'm trying to add extra servo sequences (just random motions), but I'm having an issue running the servos at the same...
I’ve just built an Axworthy Ghost and finally seem to have it working. I’ve been planning it since last year and building for 6 or 7 weekends. I’m sure that I’ll have questions for the community, but I’m happy to share what I learned along the way and explain the setup of there is interest.
This may or may not happen for Halloween 2020, but I figure I should start doing the research anyway. I have zero experience in animating props, but I know given some plan, I could probably do it. Anyway, I had this idea of doing a huge spider on my roof and then have a man hanging from the...
Some how to shots of my Halloween prop made from a whit plastic barrel.
I got this barrel for free and it only had soap in it so good and clean inside.
It seems fairly thin and light comes through it very good.
This picture is just a 5 watt Green LED bulb inside from Walmart...cost $4.
