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In 2023, my son wanted to be a fire truck for Halloween. We built this fire truck costume with working colored lights, a siren (powered by an Arduino), and a horn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This proved to be pretty obnoxious, since other kids kept pushing the horn button, and whenever there was a line for candy at a house my son would beep the horn and everyone would move out of his way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We built the shell out of cardboard and painted it with tempera paint. We also fabricated ladders from scrap MDF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The electronics were fairly elaborate. I built a control panel to power the lights, horn, and siren separately. My son had a very specific type of siren sound that he wanted, and I programmed an Arduino to replicate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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