Hackaday’s Halloween Hackfest | Hackaday.io

43 projects

2021 Hackaday Prize

Use your Arduino, IN-12 and IN-15 nixie tubes and build BIG Binary Nixie Clock or Binary Thermometer & Hygrometer.

IN-12 IN-15 Big Binary Nixie Clock

marcin-saj Marcin Saj

2021 Hackaday Prize

I hacked apart The Child plush toy from the Mandalorian and added a robotic core.

The Child: Animatronic hack of Baby Yoda plush toy

kevin-harrington Kevin Harrington

A chain of LED lit pumpkins interactively activated by a motion sensor.

Pumpkin-O-Chain

After visiting a local Halloween store, I thought it would be cool to create my own interactive scary cat with lights, sound, and movement.

Fear the Scary Cat!

The 2018 Hackaday Prize

The IoT Machine-Guard is capable of guarding electrical machines, it tracks temperature, vibration, sound, smoke, and current values.

IoT Machine-Guard

khairey-nouhe Khairey Nouhe

Spooky duck skeleton for halloween

AfraidOfDarkness

My daughter wanted a soldering kit but couldn't find a Halloween one so we made our own together.

Pumpkin solder kit badge

Stranger Things themed desktop board / word clock

Stranger Board

This is a safety coffin grave bell. If buried alive, you pull the string to ring the bell, and hope someone digs you out.

Safety Coffin Grave Bell

A 3 axis skull mimics the movements of a person wearing a baseball-cap mounted Inertial Measurement Unit and wireless communications

Yorick the Mimic

aspiring-roboticist Aspiring Roboticist

This animatronic hand can be controlled with Leap Motion to create realistic movements.

Animatronic Hand, Programmed with Leap Motion

allpartscombined

A programmable and simple to build Tesla Coil (SSTC) that runs from low voltage, ideal for use in cosplay weapons and small props.

Programmable SSTC

richard Richard

There has been a catastrophic event in the industrial zone and there is only one person who can save it, will he succeed?

Chernobyl Style Liquidator Costume

Zero is Jack Skellington's dog from the Halloween/Christmas movie Nightmare Before Christmas. I'm hoping to build a semi-animatronic version

Zero, the Nightmare Before Christmas dog

kenneth-zaborny Kenneth Zaborny

2021 Hackaday Prize

ChatGPT+Gemini+Claude | Open Source | ROS2 | Assembly within 1 hour | Quickstart

ChatGPT Robot Kit: Unlock your AI Dream Job

afreez-gan Afreez Gan

Try to win a contest with a write up of the project for another contest. using bits from other projects? Why not

One Pumpkin to rule them all

RC Nightmare Delivery Service, Open For Business. Motorizing Various Animated Halloween Characters.

RC "Hell Rider and Blair the Witch" for Halloween

2021 Hackaday Prize

Fully 3D-printable hydraulics for all your robotics projects

3D-printable double helical gear pump watertight

brian-brocken Brian Brocken

A cable-cam-inspired robot to fly a witch, or other lightweight ghoul, over unwary tricksters.

Witch-on-a-Wire Cable Bot

I converted an old Macintosh to allow a tablet to charge wirelessly inside. Making a Mac-O'-Lantern for Halloween made perfect sense.

Mac-O'-Lantern for Halloween

2021 Hackaday Prize

JEC - Just another electronic clock?

JEC - Just another electronic clock?

a Light show in a skull

Santa Muerte without makeup

2021 Hackaday Prize

Bringing an AAPN95 gumball machine into the digital age

Retrofitted IoT Gumball Machine

andrew-garber Andrew Garber

Scary sounds included and foot-operated. Halloween Candy Dispenser that meets all social distancing requirements.

Automatic Halloween Candy Dispenser