Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “3 Fun Halloween Projects With The MakeyBit and Micro: Bit”.
Hi everyone, my name, is Cecilia Hillway, and I like combining art and technology. Today I will be talking about how you can use the new makibit adventure board to make some spooky Halloween projects for these projects. I chose to use a micro bit microcontroller with the monkey bit. The Mickey bit is such a fun looking board from the beginning that I was very inspired to transform it into different Halloween characters. Using a template I created of the micro bit, I drew mustard Customs for it to wear and color them on the computer. The Customs can be made or printed on paper and placed in a Mickey bit behind the microcontroller foreign, something thicker like cardboard, it’s better to leave a hole for the micro bit once the make of it. Has its Customs you’re ready to make projects with it? For the first project I made the make of it is wearing a mommy costume, so I decided to make it come out of its sarcophagus and come to life.
I used a packaging box, so the Mickey bit comes in as a sarcophagus. I added a drawing of um sarcophagus and then I added two micro servers here. I am plugging them in to show you how they work. One of the micro servers opens up the box and the other one raises the mummy from the box.
So I press the button and I have a built-in delay, so I can put them on me where it goes and close the lid, but here you see how it will open the lid and raise the mummy. Here’S a closer look at the mechanisms. As you can see, I have the the two servers they go up and down. One is on the side, so it will allow me to close the lid of the sarcophagus as much as possible. Here you can see the racing and lowering by adding some props like tea lights that are dressed up to make them look like lit torches. I can give them akivid project some Ambience at for the video that I took.
Here’S him popping out, but and here’s the the final video. The second project is the creation of Frankenstein’s monster. It is inspired by the scene in the classic movie where the monster comes to life. I wanted to integrate several things in my project, like the crazy knife.
Switch that screams mad scientists and a poly system that helps the the gurney where the monster is lying to go up and down once the switch is activated. A continuous rotation Servo raises the gurney up to the ceiling where there’s going to be the neopixel strip. That is going to simulate the light and lightning for a while. The lighting is, what brings the monster to life once the lightning show is done, the gurney is lowered and at the very end, the monster comes to life by lighting his eyes up and the Heart starts beating foreign, the life it’s alive, it’s alive.
This is Project number three. I decided to make them the make of it into a bat, so the bat hangs upside down in different locations. You can see. I mounted his wings with two different micro servers.
One is mounted from behind and the other one was mounted from from the front that gives the wings a slightly different height so when he gets activated on so when he’s activated he’s not his wings open up and he makes a sound and his eyes light up. You can see the the light that is um microwaved version, two that light and tells you it’s actively listening to the volume of the The Voice which right now, I guess it considers it pretty loud. You can change the settings in the code to make it more or less sensitive to the sound make if it is mounted using twist ties to go through the holes and keep the making bit in place now. He he has a third twist tie by his feet, and this is what allows me to Mount him in different locations. Um foreign creepy projects that you can make who they may give it in the description below we’ll, have links to the templates and the code. I used if you want to recreate these projects.
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