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Webcam-Equipped Remote-Controllable Halloween Haunt

Posted by samzenpus on from the with-a-push-of-a-button dept.

Xmas2003 writes "Timothy asked yesterday what /.'ers are doing for Halloween and said "Maybe one year Alek Komarnitsky will switch to Hallowe'en instead of Christmas, and offer a webcam-equipped remote-controllable haunt." Turns out he actually has been doing that since 2005 ... and his Controllable Halloween Decorations allow you to turn 10,000 lights ON & OFF plus inflate/deflate the giant Frankenstein, Pumpkins, Grim Reaper, Skull, Headless Horseman, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Homer Simpson."

24 comments

  1. please have too much fun by turkeydance · · Score: 1

    10,000 lights = the 1% club?

    1. Re:please have too much fun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Happy Halloween

  2. /dev/urand /etc/lights/settings.tmp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why not? The buttons on the web page could just be a pointless little busybox and the lights simply controlled randomly; no proof to the contrary

  3. Well?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I guess no on-line control hoax for these lights???

  4. internet pipe ? by thygate · · Score: 1

    what kind of internet connection does this guy have that this is not slashdot-ed into oblivion ? very nice job, but a bit too messy for my taste ... also free advertising ;)

  5. Hoax? by Bigbutt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wasn't this the guy who said he had internet controllable lights but in fact it was just randomly flashing lights?

    [John]

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    1. Re:Hoax? by bobthesungeek76036 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Wasn't this the guy who said he had internet controllable lights but in fact it was just randomly flashing lights?

      [John]

      Yes. http://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/controllable-christmas-lights/

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    2. Re:Hoax? by BitZtream · · Score: 1

      on top of that, this isn't unique. Many of us do this sort of thing for real. I do christmas rather than halloween and I'm only one of at least 20 people I know of that do it in my area, considering I haven't actively looked for people doing it, just stumbled across them, I suspect there are many many many more. Of course, I live just outside RTP, NC, so we have a rather large collection of geeks ... this is common here, mine is disappointing compared to others I've seen in the area.

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  6. Squirrels? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Did anybody see the weird guy posting all the messages about squirrels?

  7. I would totally buy this animatronic spider... by Nova+Express · · Score: 2

    if it weren't $5,100.

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  8. the fucking scots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    and their bastardized spelling of halloween.

  9. Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    "WOW - an Opera Web Surfer
    Please Sing for the Internet!"
    pointless javascript is pointless.

    1. Re:Seriously? by foobar+bazbot · · Score: 1

      "WOW - an Opera Web Surfer
      Please Sing for the Internet!"
      pointless javascript is pointless.

      Whereas an Opera user latching onto any excuse to mention to the world that he uses Opera is... also pointless, but kind of amusing for the rest of us.

  10. What's to remotely control? by mi · · Score: 1

    I grew the pumpkins over the summer in my own garden. They aren't very big, but we carved them into decent scares and put candles inside each.

    I struggle to understand, what can possibly be remotely controlled about them...

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  11. I just visited his website by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Oh, the horror!

    1. Re:I just visited his website by jellomizer · · Score: 1

      Agreed!
      It is like GeoCities threw up onto a custom Myspace page, with extra javascript!. I feel like my PC need to run a virus scan now.

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  12. Too much light by harshal.tawade · · Score: 0

    Hahaha, with this much lighitning I don't think so anyone is going to scare.

  13. Oh, Timothy by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 2

    Timothy asked yesterday what /.'ers are doing for Halloween and said "Maybe one year Alek Komarnitsky will switch to Hallowe'en instead of Christmas, and offer a webcam-equipped remote-controllable haunt." Turns out he actually has been doing that since 2005

    That's our Timothy - never knowingly up-to-date.

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  14. off-topic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So my friend's employer has a Halloween party where the employees can bring their kids to work for the last hour of the day and go trick or treating around the office. When a 3 y.o. and 6 y.o. pair of siblings come up to her desk, they hold out their bags.
    She said to them, "What do you say?"
    And the little one said, "Please."
    And then my friend responded, "What about 'trick or treat'?"
    The little one who was in costume and asking for candy, replied sincerely, "We're Christian. We don't celebrate Halloween."

    To me, that's like someone slaughtering a cow and eating it and saying they are a vegetarian.

  15. Where's the video of it running?! by P1h3r1e3d13 · · Score: 1

    Can anybody find the one thing we care to see on that barftacular site?