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12. MAKE A GOOGLY EYE (OR JELLY BEAN)
DISPENSER
Push your servo into place on the wall of your
Halloween FunHouse, securing it with tape if
needed. Next, cut out one circle of card and one
tabbed semicircle. Fold the tabbed semicircle
in half, then secure it to the circle at about a 90
degree angle (Figure
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). Use glue to attach a
servo arm to the other face of the circle, then
attach the whole thing to the servo to make a
rotating dispenser.
13. FINISH YOUR HALLOWEEN FUNHOUSE
When your googly eye dispenser is in place,
you can assemble the rest of your Halloween
FunHouse. Fold back the wings on either side
to keep the structure upright, then stand the
FunHouse in the doorway (Figure
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). You can
make the FunHouse board stand upright by
screwing in some M3 screws at the base and you
can keep the light out of the cracks with some
black masking tape.
To put the finishing touches to your project,
you can customize the look of your Halloween
FunHouse by making different house styles with
different creatures or experimenting with casting
the shadows and diffusing the LEDs through
different materials.
LEVEL UP
Now that you know how to code and connect the
FunHouse, what else will you automate? Share
your builds and ideas at makeprojects.com.
Smart ’n’ Private
Home Projects
• Dr. Anuradha Reddy @anu1905 is a postdoctoral
researcher in hacking and IoT at Malmö University
who likes to combine textiles and hardware. She
wanted her pillow to tell her when it was cozy warm,
so she installed a temperature sensor and hacked
a lamp to display the temp through changes in the
ambient light, using an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi
hosting Mozilla WebThings. anuradhareddy.com
• Jen Fox @jenfoxbot is an engineer, maker, and
educator who works at Microsoft and builds all
sorts of things on the side. Jen’s dog Marley
likes to trap himself in rooms while she’s gone,
so she used a Micro:bit microcontroller to make
this awesome, dog-friendly automatic door that
opens when Marley presses the switch. It’s renter-
and beginner-friendly, with no prior experience
necessary. foxbotindustries.com/dog-door-opener
• Alfred Gonzalez @Alfred_G_C wanted to avoid
nosy services like Google Assistant and Alexa but
still get the feeling that he lives in the future. So,
in a futuristic effort to avoid having to get up off his
couch, he made this voice-controlled light switch
with colleague Samreen Islam, using their MATRIX
Voice board, a Raspberry Pi, a relay, and Rhasspy —
an open source, offline, private, voice assistant with
a simple web interface for training your own words
and commands. hackster.io/matrix-labs/projects
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