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Comment Monster Shooting Range! (Score 1) 273

This:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RHq0U91YQk

My Monster Shooting Range, featuring a number of robotic Halloween props, some fabricated from scratch (12' black hairy spider alert!), some bought from a store and made to move with a nifty $15 mechanism I came up with. All trigger automatically with light and sound, and you have to kill each monster using a laser tag gun that I hacked the targets for... The system runs off the new BeagleBone Black which for my money knocks the socks off RPi or Arduino. I am using relays to trigger the Try Me features on the props, DC motors, AC lights and sound, and the whole thing is wired with stranded CAT5. That's a lot of soldering! And I finished it with 15 hours to go before the kids start showing up... More video at http://youtube.com/user/psyclopz

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