On 2005-10-10, Jayson wrote:
Ok..

First, thank you for even reading this post, as I know I am not a regular
(infact I don't recall posting here ever before, though I might have). That
being said.. onto the details.

A local message forum of car ethusiasts were chatting about local
"ghost/haunted sightings"... and long story short, have decided to visit a
particular "haunted" place at a particular time on a particular day to "hunt
some ghosts.."

I'm looking for relatively inexpensive ways to achieve operation, "make
ghost hunters crap themselves..." Who's with me?

I was thinking simple things such as yellow LED's (not the superbright clear
type) glowing when fishing line is "tripped" (removing a piece of plastic
between two metal poles, thus completing the circuit type of thing) to give
the appearance of eyes (but would be nice to throw on a sound circuitry as
well which would give a "shhhhhhewwww" type of sound or something else half
believable)... but staying on continuously is definitely NOT a good thing..
so a timed circuit in which the "shhhheww" sound (or whatever) would play,
end and the eyes would be lit for a total of maybe 10 seconds...

use a small tape player (the kind that uses 2xAA batteries) you can run that
off the same power source as the LEDs, if you wind it back 10 seconds before
the end of the tape there's your 10 seconds delay, (you'll probably have to
shorten the blank leader in the cassette so the sound doesn't stop too
suddenly) if it does auto-stop you can use when the play button pops up to
turn off the LEDs.

if you can get a sound recording with lots of sub bass in it and a good big
powered sub woofer and hook that up to the tape player that'll chill 'em
pretty well

TIA!!!

Jayson
jayson_hansen at hotmail dot com




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Bye.
Jasen