Hello everybody! My title is Cecilia Hillway and I like combining artwork and know-how. Immediately I might be speaking about how you should use the brand new MakeyBit Journey Board to make some spooky Halloween tasks.
For these tasks, I selected to make use of the Microbit microcontroller with the MakeyBit.
The Makeybit is such a fun-looking board from the start, that I used to be very impressed to rework it into totally different Halloween characters.
Utilizing a template I created of the Makeybit, I drew monster costumes for it to put on and coloured them on the pc. The costumes may be made or printed on paper and positioned on the Makeybit behind the microcontroller. In case you are utilizing one thing thicker, like cardboard, it’s higher to depart a gap for the Microbit.
As soon as the Makeybit has its costumes you’re able to make tasks with it.
For the primary venture I made, the Makeybit is sporting a Mummy costume (PDF), so I made a decision to make it come out of its sarcophagus and are available to life. I used the packaging field that the Makeybit is available in because the sarcophagus. I added a drawing of a sarcophagus after which I added two micro servos. Right here I’m plugging them in to point out you the way they work. One of many micro servos opens up the field and the opposite one raises the Mummy from the field.
I press the button and I’ve a built-in delay so I can put the Mummy the place it goes and shut the lid. However right here you see the way it will open the lid and lift the Mummy. Right here’s a better take a look at the mechanisms. As you possibly can see, I’ve the 2 servos. They go up and down. One is on the facet so it’s going to permit me to shut the lid of the sarcophagus as a lot as doable. Right here you possibly can see the elevating and decreasing. By including some props like tea lights which might be dressed as much as make them appear like lit torches, I can provide the Makeybit venture some ambiance for the video that I took. Right here’s him coming out, and right here’s the ultimate video.
The second venture is the creation of Frankenstein’s monster(PDF). It’s impressed by the scene within the basic film the place the monster involves life. I wished to combine a number of issues into my venture, just like the loopy knife swap that screams mad scientist and a pulley system that helps the gurney the place the monster is mendacity to go up and down.
As soon as the swap is activated, a steady rotation servo raises the gurney as much as the ceiling the place there’s going to be the Neopixel strip that’s going to simulate the lightning for some time. The lightning is what brings the monster to life. As soon as the lightning present is finished, the gurney is lowered. And on the very finish, the monster involves life by lighting his eyes up and the center begins beating.
For venture quantity three, I made a decision to show the Makeybit right into a bat(PDF). So the bat hangs the wrong way up in numerous areas. You may see I mounted his wings with two totally different micro servos. One is mounted from behind and the opposite one is mounted from the entrance. That provides the wings a barely totally different peak. So when he will get activated (which I’m going to show him on). So when he will get activated, his wings open up and he makes a sound, and his eyes mild up. You may see the sunshine that could be a Microbit model 2. That mild tells you it’s actively listening to the quantity of the voice. Which proper now I suppose it’s thought of fairly loud. You may change the settings within the code to make it kind of delicate to the sound.
Makeybit is mounted utilizing twist ties that undergo the holes and maintain the Makeybit in place. Now he has a 3rd twist tie by his toes and that is what permits me to mount him in numerous areas.
Three totally different creepy tasks you may make with the MakeyBit. Within the description under, we’ll have hyperlinks to the templates and the code I used if you wish to recreate these tasks. Please share your creations on-line with the hashtag MakeyBit.
