{"id":50774,"date":"2026-08-25T23:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/?p=50774"},"modified":"2026-08-25T23:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:37:13","slug":"quick-post-9-hauntomation-automating-halloween-with-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/50774\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Post #9: Hauntomation: Automating Halloween with Python"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/banner.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-26311 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/banner-300x157.png\" alt=\"Halloween themed image of laptop with code, pumpkin with python logo, and black cat\" width=\"575\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a>Anyone who&#8217;s browsed through this blog has seen that I like to combine my interest in Halloween with my interest in programming and electronics. This past May, I attended PyCon 2026 US (the annual python programming language convention). The conference include 5 minute &#8220;lightning talks.&#8221; I presented a lightning talk on using Python to customize Halloween props.<\/p>\n<p>The talk included three of my projects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pi-Based Multi-Prop Trigger \u2014 coordinated routines from one PIR<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #e8e6e3; --darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text-e8e6e3, #d8d4cf);\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">ChatterPi \u2014 talking skulls, in Python<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Yorick the Mimic \u2014 wireless 3-axis skull control via motion capture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 x3ct3a4 xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xkrqix3 x1sur9pj xzsf02u x1s688f\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">In addition, it has the links to a crowdsourced collection of resources on the web related to python and Halloween projects. The<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/m11iOY82-eo?t=2016&amp;is=G9ZivVmpg2TVWa7D\"> video<\/a> of the talk is now available on YouTube. You can also get a <a href=\"http:\/\/Halloween Lightning Talk\">copy of the slides<\/a>. and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/pycon2026\/\">read more<\/a> about the talk.<\/div>\n<div tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who&#8217;s browsed through this blog has seen that I like to combine my interest in Halloween with my interest in programming and electronics. This past May, I attended PyCon 2026 US (the annual python programming language convention). The conference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/50774\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,81,135,40,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50778,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50774\/revisions\/50778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}