Ideas after the 2018 Halloween Event

Improvements

General

• More sound/volume (it was quite loud with all the people) or even better adaptive to the outside sound level.
• LED lighting panels, remote controlled (DMX?) via scary actions.
• Ground level fog (cooling system).

Dungeon

• Moving hands coming from the dungeon
• Black base layer under dungeon for protection
• Smoke comes out underneath the wall. Could be fixed with the above.
• Sound needs to be louder and growling or loughing needs reverb
• If you screem something in there, it should echo echo an reverb around

Flying ghost

• Pimp the flying ghost with sound, LED eyes, lighting, etc.
• He could be chasing a little witch on a broom that screems "help"

Monster in a box

• Box should detect when it is closed so that it doesn't stay open. Possible solutions: Detect the "close" position of the lever by IR light barrier or by magnet and hall sensor
• And it should be PIR triggered
• Box needs to be louder (see above).
• The box could be rocking

Feature	Description	Column 3
Stop only when shut	The lid animation only stops when the lid is shut. If the lid is open at the end of the action the motor carries on until the lid is shut	Text
PIR triggered	The monster in a box is triggered by people standing/moving in front of it. This can be deactivated.	Text
Sound triggered	The monster in a box is triggered by a keyword. This can be deactivated.	Text
Manual volume control	The volume of the moster in a box can be adjusted manually by the control app.	Text
Adaptive volume control	The volume of the moster in a box is adjusted automatically depending on the ambient noise. This can be deactivated.	Text
More volume	The sound can be louder	Text

Demon

• Demon make-over. It's falling apart and only consists of duck tape now. It almost falls off the chair.
• More sound. The demon does not have a speaker at the moment.
• More pets. There're more skeleton animals that give of nice sounds.
• Interactive: It would be cool to have limited conversation skills ( in German). Google Home style. Maybe it can recognize certain key words?

Window decorations

• Projectors were not prepared well: have adapters ready.
• Maybe use little streaming box to avoid macbook in staircase
• Too small where it was. Spirit light looked good
• Other windows need foil
• More lights need to be covered by red paper
• Sebis kitchen: strobe light, explosion sounds, organ, evil laugh

New exhibits

• Lifesize object (Kate)
• Put styropore heads on sticks with shoulders and some cloth so that they are higher and look like ghosts.
• Spider with LED eyes and abseiling, controlled by a thread/tether
• Grave-riser out of the styropore sarcophagus
• Cocoonman in routine
• Exorcist-like installation with 360° plus head turning
• Lifesize witch stirring around in a pot
• Lots of little exhibits that are usually triggered by a little push button and then work on their own. But they are now part of the haunted house network

Other

• Visitor management: Coming in, people should queue on the right, at the bottom of the stairs they need to be stopped until there is room on the stairs.
• Walking areas need to be separated better from display areas. Corden off the ghost circle and the grave stone areas.
• Drinks/food? People were asking for mulled wine and Bratwurst.
• People could be asked for giving to charity.

Brainstorming April 13th @ Balzac

Wir sind die folgenden Punkte durchgegangen. Einige decken sich mit den oben.

• Zigbee-Brnen überall --> Sebi: Bedroom & Küche, Melli&Mirko: Küche, Gäste WC, Wir: Vincents Zimmer, Treppenhaus: 7 Glühbirnen. Koordiniert Farbe einstellen und ein-/ausschalten
• Orgel und flackerndes Licht bei Sebi in der Küche. Evil Laughter
• Monster in a box IR-getriggert, damit man nicht immer triggern muss.
• Spielhaus Licht/Sound/Silouette. Künstliches Fenster?
• Audio muss lauter insgesamt, zumindest wenn es voll wird (adaptiv?)
• Ambience Sounds per PA? Auf jeden Fall lauter.
• Dungeon: Echo-Effekt beim Reinrufen, Monster brüllt, wenn man rein ruft oder sogar antwortet auf Schlüsselwörter
• Absperrband um Gräber, Dungeon und Ghostcircle zu schonen
• Neuer ort für Gräber: Vor der Treppe lieber Platz für Leute lassen, die rumstehen
• Gräber besser beleuchten
• Spinne, die neben der Tür hoch und runter krabbelt
• Neuer Grave-Riser
• Cocoon Man
• Flying Ghost pimpen mit Sound und Light. Eigentlich muss er auch gar nicht ins Fenster fliegen
• Raspberry Mini einsetzen
• Neue Eyes in the dark: cheap, viele und ferngesteuert. Eventuell mit einem zentralen Speaker im Gebüsch?

Wichtige Enabler-TODOs:

• Audio-Input-Lösung
  • Audio Input und Speech Recognition: Audio Input erkennen, Sprache auswerten und dadurch getriggert etwas tun
  • TODO Audio Effects für Reverb Effect im Dungeon. Vielleicht der hier: https://github.com/carlthome/python-audio-effects?
• Günstigere und lautere Speaker-Lösung finden
  • PC Aktivlautsprecher 2.0 und 2.1 gibt es bei Amazon oder Ebay für 20 bzw 5€. Ok für das Dungeon. Beim Monster in a box oder dem Demon müssen die Speaker aber klein sein.
  • Die Lautstärke jedes Exponats muss per Wifi steuerbar sein
• Günstige Zigbee-Leuchten finden
  • Mehrere WLAN RGB Glühbirnen erfolgreich getestet (billiger), die sich per Google steuern lassen und wohl auch per IFTTT.
  • Nächster Schritt: Mehrere davon gleichzeitig und per IFTTT steuern. IFTTT in Halloween Steuerung integrieren.
  • Lampen im Haus nach vorne heraus werden parallel ein/ausgeschaltet oder auf rot oder blitzen.
• LED Leucht-Panel besorgen
• WLAN/Ethernet für draußen vorbereiten