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The Black Box
(Formerly "Stump Jumper")
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I've
been wanting to make this for a few years now. The mechanical
portion of this project was easy and fast, but the rest of it (i.e:
The fiberglass, painting, etc) was long, nasty, and expensive.
Yuck!! The finished product it cool. Inside we have a
Bimba NR3118, sound module, speakers, and of course, a red flood
light, all controlled with a motion controlled event timer. We
scrapped this project the day after Halloween and built it into "The
Black Box" (See below for the details) |
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Here's the stump with the mechanics down, and the chicken-wire
frame. We're about the put a coat of fiberglass over it.
(Little did I know that fiberglass was a HUGE pain in the ass) |
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Michelle
to the rescue!! I was thoroghly frustrated with the
fiberglass, and my artistic talent runs thin, so Michelle jumped
in to save the day! |
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For
those of you that have not yet discovered the miracle of child
labor... Voila! Counterclockwise from the top:
Courtney, Aimee, Noe. |
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The day
after Halloween 2005, I gutted the good parts from the stump
jumper and through the fiberglass shell in the trash truck when
it came by. Although it was a great prop, we kept getting
comments about how cool our volcano was. :)
So for 2006, it got a complete makeover and was made into "The
Black Box".
Everything is
built right into this new prop. Sound, pneumatics, motion
control, etc. All I have to do is plug in power, and the
air hose, and viola! (All of our other moving props take
quite some time to set up fully)
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