- Tips for beginning haunters.
- Making a cheap black light fixture.
- Consider subscribing to e-mailing lists
- Instant Halloween Kit
- My First Fog Machine
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Traditions, history, folklore:
- Pointers to commercial equipment:
- Contact information: sources for equipment, supplies, and information.
- commercial flicker
- commercial fake lightning
- commercial foam-carving tools
- commercial strobes and kits
- commercial crystal balls
- commercial gargoyles
- commercial dimmer boxes
- commercial cross-faders
- commercial plasma lamps
- commercial LED creature eyes
- commercial power sequencers
- commercial flashers
- We do a lot with lighting at Wolfstone.
- light sources:
- optical fibers and light pipes
- Dynamic lighting effects:
- Lighting with an attitude: strobes
- Your haunt wouldn't be the same without
black light.
- Making black light:
- generating and projecting black light
- compact fluorescent black light
- black light LEDs.
- The terrible twofer: black light strobes.
- Making a cheap black light fixture.
- materials that react to black light
- Making black light:
- Flashing Light
- Intro to flashing lights.
- commercial flashers
- Flickering light
- Dimming the lights
- outdoor stake-lights
- lighting use
- How do you intend to control those fancy automated props?
- Will your props be run by
remote control from a central location?
- X-10
- Or perhaps you would prefer DMX.
- Or perhaps run your props by
local control.
- Detect TOTs with a PIR sensor.
- Trigger props in sequence with our power sequencer.
- Intelligent controllers
- intro to controllers
- choosing a haunt controller
- Controller Input/Output Overview
- BASIC Stamp-based controllers
- Writing programs for controllers
- Extending the scope of your control system
- Synchronize sound with an air switch.
- Fan out your control with a trigger relay.
- Control low-voltage props with a line voltage switch.
- Will your props be run by
remote control from a central location?
- Put a little life in your zombies:
- Coarse animation
- Bring those animated figures to life with compressed air
- compressor
- Turn the pressure on and off with solenoid valves.
- Turn pressure into motion with pneumatic cylinders.
- electric motors
- intro to DC Electric Motors
- intro to AC Electric Motors
- Bring those animated figures to life with compressed air
- Coarse animation
- Precision animation
- Talking and singing props
- animated mouths
- systems for managing talking and singing props
- Scream with terror - add a sound system:
- connecting audio systems
- With multiple speakers, you have to worry about speaker impedance matching.
- You can avoid a lot of trouble with a 70-Volt speaker system.
- scream box
- generic recordable sound box
- Recorded Sound Using MP3 Players
- amplified speakers
- Terror Tone
- remote volume control
- Specific construction projects:
- The Crate Beast!
- Jeep From Hell!
- popup skeleton
- pumpkin popup
- FCG stand
- mad monk
- mad monk2 - updated prop
- Slide Trombone Of Doom
- Twisting Scarecrow
- modified gargoyles
- LED creature eyes
- Spooky Clock
- Spooky Clock 2
- Harbingers: Signs of things to come
- Skeletons and skulls
- molding and casting
- Build a corpse.
- Giant spider...
- Compressed-air
- Control those compressed-air effects Haunt Air Manager (HAM).
- converting an old propane tank for compressed air
- Improvise a pneumatic cylinder from a screen door closer.
- Improvise a pneumatic cylinder from a bicycle pump.
- Connecting Solenoid Valve To Pneumatic Cylinders
- Mounting pneumatic cylinders.
- Mount it all with rebar stakes.
- Got a hanging cauldron? Add a fake fire.
- skull fountain.
- Thunder and lightning where and when you want it.
- Every haunt needs a graveyard!
- Keep your little visitors out of your display with a graveyard fence.
- Original graveyard fence.
- 2001 update
- Fence columns
- Gargoyles
- Where did we dig up those tombstones?
- Gravestone details
- update after years
- Additional Styrofoam Gravestones for 2004
- Wondering what to carve on your gravestones? Epitaphs!
- Keep your little visitors out of your display with a graveyard fence.
- Effects for atmosphere:
- It looks a lot spookier with fog.
- Your best bet is probably a glycol fogger...
- Buying a glycol fogger.
- ...which might require a chiller.
- A lot of people are curious about making your own fog juice for glycol foggers.
- We added X-10 to a fogger for remote control.
- controller-driven fogger
- fogger remotes
- Buying a water hazer
- Ultrasonic misters are good for little spots of fog.
- Dry ice fog is not as good as you might think.
- You should avoid oil crackers.
- Your best bet is probably a glycol fogger...
- A bubble machine isn't very spooky at all.
- A snow machine isn't very spooky either.
- It looks a lot spookier with fog.
- You can also spook things up with a hot glue web-making machine.
- Haunt theme "skins":
- Our "Idea File" of things we haven't gotten around to doing yet:
- Moving Eye Statue
- Moving Flickering Shadows
- Moving Shadows
- Mummies
- Balloon Spider Eggs
- Cheap Lightning Box
- Mini Slave Strobe
- What Lurks In The Dark?
- Spooky recipes:
- Decorating:
- Tools:
- Cutting and shaping plastic foam:
- compressors
- electronic components
- mechanical components
- Materials
- Finishing
- Costumes:
- Silent screams with cosmetic contacts.
- There will be the Devil to pay when you wear horns.
- prosthetic adhesive
- General techno-tips
- Electrical power
- Immortalize your creations in photographs.
- We suggest digital photography.
- Tips on buying a camera.
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Logistical and Philosophical
issues:
- Nobody said haunting was easy. There are deep philosophical issues you should consider.
- security
- purchasing electronic parts
- deployment and setup
- packing and storage
- standards for connectibility and interchangability
- beware of stupid patents
- Safety
- Tools
- Techniques
- Moral and Ethical issues:
- Is haunting just for guys? Not hardly!
- Does it take an adult to pull off a great haunt? No way!
- Do you have to be rich to make a great haunt?
- Tips for beginning haunters.
- In general, we prefer to avoid using witches in our Halloween displays. Witchcraft is a minority religion that has suffered persecution for hundreds of years.
- It doesn't take much to become the target of persecution. The Burning Times are not over.
- Housekeeping issues:
- Terms of service.
- You sure talk funny! What do those words mean?
- A word of thanks.
- Who is Wolfstone?
