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Halloween Fun 2021 - The Tiki themed Mahalloween

Now that we're new to the neighborhood we wanted to something fun for Halloween.  We decided to take a two pronged approach, create some eyeball animatronic pumpkins and do a custom window animation.

The eyeball pumpkins camout out pretty great.  I made these with some cheap servos and arduinos.

I followed a lot of the tutorials on how to build these from here. I did find that all of these tutorials had the arduino powering the servos, which can work for a few, but when you have 8 or so you're not going to be able to draw enough power right from the arduino.  I ended up setting up an external supply for the arduino which also had a separate power rail to drive all the eyeball servos.  Someday I'll post the fritzing and code for these.  Nothing that intersting though.

arduino and wiring

More fun was a collab my wife and I did on our custom window animation.  She handled the design and all the skilled drawing.  I took it into after effects and did the animation loop.  I love the way this looked.