Rodger's R/C ghost-bot might be the coolest thing I could imagine running into on Halloween night -

I have re-used my electric-wheelchair hack technology and applied it my ever-morphing holiday bots. Today's submission - Donna the Dead - "one mad bride that goes for a ride".

Using "low-tech" Home Depot pipe technology (tie-wrapped to her head), she seems to float though the chilling evening sky -- moaning at the mad scientist who wired 5 volts into her "Party City" vibrating scull. A $10 strobe running from a 12V scooter battery inverted to 110VAC makes sure she's noticed, and the 110V makes for easy use of a wall-wart to send 5 volts up the flat-black pole.

Spread spectrum dual channel RF technology insures she won't stray. The AVR code, that taps into the wheel-chair pot electronics is freely available at www.thespiritedtree.com and also was first posted in Trossen forums.

Well done! Surely a somewhat scaled down version could be made using an inexpensive toy R/C car … unfortunately, this would likely not be well received in my urban neighborhood :/ - Donna The Dead Bot

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This was one of the most charming projects I saw at Maker Faire, Nyssa's little micro RC jousters. Such a simple idea, a great project for kids, and one of those things that starts you thinking about other things to do with your tiny RC cars. You could make lots of papercraft skins, have a cat chasing a mouse, Alien vs. Predator, McCain v. Obama (Palin vs. McCain?).

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