Get in the Halloween Spirit with This AI-Generated Spooky Music
The results are pretty eerie, but you can help them get even creepier. Continue reading Get in the Halloween Spirit with This AI-Generated Spooky Music
Category Archives: scary
Pi-Controlled Billy From The Saw Horror Flicks
[David0429] has made a very scary Raspberry Pi controlled puppet. Scary that is if you’ve seen the Saw movies where a serial killer uses one like it, called Billy, to communicate with his victims. If you haven’t, then it’s a pretty neat remote-controlled puppet-on-a-tricycle hack.
A stepper motor hidden under the front fender moves the trike by rotating the front wheel. It does this using a small 3D printed wheel that’s attached to the motor’s shaft and that presses against the trike’s wheel. Steering is done using a 3D printed gear mounted above the fender and attached to the steering …read more
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Don’t Lose Your Head Over Two-Headed Sharks
Polycephaly, the condition of having more than one head, is relatively common in nature. Continue reading Don’t Lose Your Head Over Two-Headed Sharks
Tiny Open Source Robot
We watched the video introduction for this little open source robot, and while we’re not 100% sure we want tiny glowing eyes watching us while we sleep, it does seem to be a nice little platform for hacking. The robot is a side project of [Matthew], who’s studying for a degree in Information Science.
The robot has little actuated grippy arms for holding a cell phone in the front. When it’t not holding a cellphone it can use its two little ultrasonic senors to run around without bumping into things. We like the passive balancing used on the robot. Rather …read more
