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3D Printed “Spooky” Arduino/Raspberry Pi Electronics Projects for Halloween 2017

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Author: Chris Garrett

Halloween 2017 3d printing/arduino/raspberry pi maker projectsHalloween is an awesome time for makers. Each year I like to beat my previous year’s builds.

For Halloween 2017 I thought I would do something a bit special and create two projects. This is the first, an Arduino-powered skull!

Light-Up 3D Printed Halloween Skull Powered by Arduino

To start you will need the 3d printed skull (though any prop or toy will do!). Download the STL from Thingiverse here. I printed the skull on the Athorbot.

Next, grab some wire or breadboard jumper wires, a couple of bright LEDs, 220 or 330 ohm resistors for each of your LEDs, and a battery. I used a 9v battery and a connector, you can also use a breadboard power converter and any compatible power source that you choose.

For this project I used an Arduino Nano, though any Arduino will do. The Nano is convenient because of the built-in USB.

It’s a pretty simple circuit:

arduino-circuit

And here is the code:

 

3D Printed “Pumpkin Pi” – Pumpkin with Raspberry Pi Powered Lights and Sounds

In this second Halloween project, I built a 3d printed pumpkin, powered by Raspberry Pi, for lights and random sound effects.

A couple of years ago I made a simple Arduino version, printed on my Printrbot Simple Metal. This year I wanted to go big so printed 50+ hours on my Creality CR-10 S5. It’s huge, and showed that printer was in fact a worthwhile purchase!

Ultimaker for scale
Ultimaker for scale

To make things easier for family fun, I use the kid-friendly drag and drop scripting environment.

Pumpkin Pi Scratch 2 sound effects and lights script
Pumpkin Pi Scratch 2 sound effects and lights script

Essentially it says “do the following forever. Play a sound with the filename that matches a random number between 1 and 7 followed by .mp3, turn on the lights for a random time, then turn off the lights. Wait a random time, then do all of that over again.”

For super bright LED output I use a $2 L298N breakout, but that is not entirely necessary. I just didn’t get enough juice just from the Pi pins to properly light up the pumpkin for filming.

Speaking of juice, the whole thing was powered by two USB power banks, even though my DJI Mavic Pro battery had two USB outputs so I could have run it off one with the speakers plugged into a Pi USB port.

I used USB speakers for, again, power. To make it for sure audible, I needed maximum loudness, but any speakers will do.

Get the STL from Thingiverse here.

pumpkin pi circuit
pumpkin pi circuit

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

 

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Category: Makes, Tests, and BuildsTag: 3d printed, 3d printing, arduino, electronics, halloween, leds, props, raspberry pi, sound effects
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About Chris Garrett

Marketing Director by day, maker, retro gaming, tabletop war/roleplaying nerd by night. Co-author of the Problogger Book with Darren Rowse. Husband, Dad, 🇨🇦 Canadian.

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