DIY Decoration for Halloween Cake

The first words in every posted article are the most important ones, I spent an hour without getting to write any thing good for an impressive start so I decided to just get straight through the main topic of this post which is "Halloween"!

It's me again! with a new post and a new challenging topic that stimulates the mind, it's the Halloween, certainly the most spooky event of the season.

I decided to create some special decoration for my Halloween cake this year instead of buying a ready-made patterns, that's why I designed some electronics circuits to match the Halloween lighting decoration and some 3D printed ghosts to give some spooky looking to my work, enough talking! let's just get it start.

Step 1: Circuit Designing

I mentioned in the previous step that I have prepared some circuits to match the Halloween lighting theme, well it is obvious that I have designed some lighting circuits but what makes it a bit special is the circuit shape!

Yes, I made some customized shapes for my circuit board to keep it all turning around the Halloween topic, these shapes are basically a Ghost shape holding a pumpkin and a sleepy scary face looking Bat ^_^

I moved to an EDA designer softawre (you can use whatever EDA of your choice) and just uploaded the PNG images to mimic the form shape.

I played a bit with the circuit board layers to create some multi-color looking for my boards.

Once the shape is ready, I just uploaded the circuit design to it and did the routing, the circuit is really basic for both designs, for the Ghost it is meant to turn on a steady Orange light to light-up the pumpkin, for the Bat the circuit is meant to light up an LED placed in the Bat's eye which is something cool isn't it!

Then my files are ready for submission to be manufactured. It is always cool to see a produced design of your own.

Step 2: Circuits Assembly and Test

After getting my designs well produced and delivered then all what it takes is assembling the Electronics components and test the circuit to check if we made any designing mistakes. Just one small tip for the Ghost LEDs, it has to be putted on its side to make the light direction straight on the pumpkin. For the Bat circuit the challenging part is Hand soldering the small LED which is a 0402 package (really small one to fit on the Bat's eye)

I powered both circuits using a CR1220 Battery and it works pretty well, by the way I'm sharing the design files if anyone need it then you can just use these files to reproduce the Boards.

Get the files from this download link

Step 3: 3D Printed Ghosts

Coming to the easy part now, no Halloween without Ghosts! I just moved to thingiverse where I found some cool Ghosts designs I garbed the STL files of one spooky Ghost and upload it to my 3D printer, After getting it printed I colored the inner side of the Ghost with some black ink, this way the Ghost will get Black eyes from the outer side when you just look at it ^_^

For the STL files you can just check the thingiverse.com website or you can use the same STL files that I used since I'm attaching them in this section

I got all my patterns ready now let's move to the decoration part.

Step 4: Place the Spooky Decoration

As always, we must get the Halloween Cake first (maybe the Halloween cake preparation could be posted in a separate instructables post)

I added some Orange light around the Cake and placed my printed Ghosts plus the created circuits, I lowered down the room light and displayed a Halloween theme video in the Background to produce those Halloween image.

It was definitely an amazing time with all these diy stuff around the cake, really something remarkable this year.

Keep it spooky, keep it real ^_^