A Little Ludwig Goes a Long Way

A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.

General Sites

07 November 2002

Good places to go for project ideas, or to buy a wide variety of gear. TheatreFX – useful site for medium/high end effects – pyrotechnics, foggers, etc. Not all appropriate/safe for home use – but a lot of fun! Lots of projects including cheapo switchmats – Allen’s Halloween Page. A good general info site – Halloween Central - Your Halloween Information Resource. This site might have some good stuff this year – Haunted Wisconsin - Links Do-It-Yourself Props. A halloween portal – Halloween Online - Your Guide to Halloween on the Net!. A variety of supplies (but not the best prices) – First Imperial. Here’s another portal thingy – Minions Web Hallow-links . And one with a newsy/bloggy flavor – Halloween Central - Your Halloween Information Resource

Cool Props

07 November 2002

OK here is a cool idea for creating talking skulls with your own soundtrack – Talking BORIS. Some more boris ideas at Boris Modifications. Waaaaay Cool props – Kind of outrageously priced – Iron Kingdom. Bones bones and more bones – The Bucky-n-Thrifty Boneyard Bargains Page. The fog heads here are nice – Terror Syndicate. Tombstones – HAUNTED HEADSTONES. Stylized Dragons – Garden Shadows. Props and effects of all kinds including cool organ – DC Prop Shop. Various and sundry props – Halloween Haunted House Design and Equipment. Some nice props here tho webpage is a little heavy – Haunted Village. Various props – Kreepers, eviltoadstudiosnew. Now here are some great sites for building animatronics. Controller boards at Scream In The Dark - Animatronics Modules. and servos to match at ServoCity.com. and/or wiper motors – Incredible Stuff at Unbelievable Prices: American Science & Surplus. Ambitious thoughts for an Axworthy Ghost project. Simple and low-tech but nice looking…Dancing Ghost Ring. Nice plans in here for Tesla Coils including the 6’ tall 1 million volt version – Information Unlimited Nice Pepper’s Ghost writeup. Cool! Save this one away for next year – this would be a great part of my pirate scene.