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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 tossed the fiberglass shell in the garbage 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", or as we prefer to call it, "Crap in the 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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