Halloween Skeleton

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Create the ultimate skeleton Halloween decoration.

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In this guide we use a Halloween skeleton mask, an Arduino Duemilanove, a servo and some LEDs to create the ultimate skeleton Halloween decoration.

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Add Note Edit Step 1 — Halloween Skeleton  ¶ 

  • Attach your servo to your mask. You may need to add wood or something for support.

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  • Optional : Add LEDs in the eyes.

  • If you add LEDs the positive/red goes to the Arduino's pin 13 and the negative/black/ground goes to the ground pin.

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  • Now let's wire up the servo to our Arduino.

  • The Black wire goes to a ground pin.

  • The Red Goes To 5v Power

  • The Yellow/White/Orange goes to digital pin 9.

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  • Now plug your Arduino in and type this code:

  • // THIS IS FOR NO LEDs. #include <Servo.h> Servo myservo; // create servo object to control void setup() { myservo.attach(9); // attaches servo to pin 9 } void loop() { myservo.write(90);//Degree 1 to 180 delay(1000); //Time in milliseconds myservo.write(180);//Degree 1 to 180 delay(1000); //Time in milliseconds myservo.write(90);//Degree 1 to 180 delay(1000); //Time in milliseconds }

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  • You're finished!

  • To add LEDs just add the code from the Arduino example called "blink."

Now you have a skeleton decoration.

For more information, check out the Arduino category page.

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