The night is drawing closer ... my favorite night of the whole year: Halloween. I love Halloween — the costumes, haunted houses, parties, and friendly exchanges with trick-or-treaters; Halloween is the best. When I have the chance, something I like to do is build Halloween-oriented props and decorations and you can bet that many of those props get some sort of automation via the BASIC Stamp microcontroller. Good Halloween props add an element of surprise, which, of course, intensifies the fright — and that's the most fun thing about Halloween, right? The only problem is that, as a society, we are far more sophisticated than we were in the past (especially the teenagers). We can easily see through a cheesy effect and find the trigger, which ruins the effect for those who immediately follow.
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