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.
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.