Tom in Seattle

Introduction to Arduino Years ago, it would have been difficult to impossible for the average person to implement and use animatronics,...

One of the coolest new trends in decorating is Projection Mapping. You can pull off some truly jaw-dropping visual effects with this...

Last year, I set up a bunch of cool Halloween decorations (like the Haunted Mansion Singing Busts) in my front yard, and little kids were...

If you read my previous post (Amping Up Your Halloween Display with VFX Ghosts), you learned how to use commercially-available VFX videos...

This project dovetails nicely with a previous project (Animated Beetlejuice Graveyard Sign). I could have bought a Beetlejuice Tombstone....

Pepper's Ghost is an illusion that's been used for decades to fool audiences into believing that an apparition is hanging in the air in...

Quite often, when you're trying to make something that you've seen in a movie or a photograph, you need to calculate the dimensions of...

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Seattle has some pretty unpredictable weather, but you can be pretty certain that the probability of rain starting in October is greater...

The Haunted Mansion is one of Disney's most popular attractions, and it's no wonder why. It brings together some rather sophisticated...