These are some images from Halloween. Included are the cast from the time machine event. There are also some photos of an annual display on a nearby front lawn.
Updated: Nov 01, 2006 10:21pm PST
This year a group of us decided to make a Time Machine as a Halloween entertainment. We planned on a darkened, UV-lit, machine-theme entryway leading to the Time Machine itself. It would be a 4 foot by 4 foot room the victims/visitors would have to step up into. The room would be decorated internally with interesting electronic-theme s ...
Updated: Nov 05, 2006 2:01pm PST
Inspired by putting up lights at our house at Thanksgiving, Cory decided to decorate his home with lights. Of course, he added controllers and connected them to a computer. Then he selected appropriate musical numbers and programmed the lights to accompany the music. Finally, he added a local FM transmitter so viewers could hear the mu ...
Updated: Dec 31, 2006 9:23pm PST
Halloween 2007 - Deal or No Deal / Trick Or Treat
This year's Halloween activity started with 11 Halliburton-style cases being donated to the cause. That inspired us to create a Deal Or No Deal type set, the Trick Or Treat version. We also had an infrared light and two IR video cameras donated, which inspired the dark tunnel entry/exit. The battlebot guys created a second-generation f ...
Updated: Nov 02, 2007 1:58pm PST
Halloween 2007 - Brent Ross' Mountain View Display
Brent Ross, who has been doing Halloween displays at his parents' house in Mountain View, CA, won $50,000 this year from fearnet.com for the presentation shown in a video entered into the competition. The presentation of the prize winnings was done on the Today show just before Halloween. These are a few pictures to give a flavor of the ...
Updated: Nov 04, 2007 3:11pm PST