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The
graveyard for the last two years is what I call the "Monster
Mash Graveyard"
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It's
based around the song Monster Mash and features a lead singer
with back-up singers and dancers. Elvis even helps out from
the Kitchen
Sink Coffin.
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These
are some of the LED spotlights I use to illuminate all the
tombstones. They're simply a piece of brass tubing with an
LED and resistor inside attached to a piece of doweling. They
work quite well.
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Here's
our lead singer who I call Boris. He used to be the Grave
Stomper and there's more info on how he works here.
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Boris
houses the main controller in his chest. It links to the other
props using CAT5 network cabling.
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The
main controller consists of a power supply (far right), a
uMP3 player (upper right), a BASIC Stamp 2, a four channel
lighting dimmer (under the main circuit board), a remote receiver
(center), a 17 watt amplifier (lower left), a audio/servo
driver board (right of amp) and a Mini SSC servo controller
(lower center). The main circuit board is currently being
revised (11/07), adding a SX28 mcu to relieve the BS2 of some
of its workload to be able to add another song or two and
allow for more precise timing of the show.
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Here's
one of the back-up singers which uses a GraveJumper mechanism......
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......and
another back-up singer I call "Stumpy".
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Here
are the electronics for Stumpy.
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These
are our dancers, just a pair of Blucky skeletons hooked up
to the mechanism in the next picture.
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This
is basically a Flying Crank Ghost mechanism mounted vertically
to a tree. It consists of a wiper motor hooked to an arm with
fishing line attached.......
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.....the
lines go up to pulleys in an overhead bar, over and down to
the dancing skeletons.
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The
board above the exit to the tunnel serves two purposes, it
helps to stabilize the handrails and gives me a place to mount
a camera and additional IR lighting. You can see the camera
at the top and the 80 IR LEDs mounted in five cutouts in the
board. Click
here for a look at some video from this.
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Here
are some shots from this year's maze.
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The
drop down portrait that scares them every time.
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These
creepy busts are from Michaels.
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