Kilauea Cove Build — Part 5: Smoke & Lights
Back to the good stuff — smoke and lights! Now that I have (almost) all of the decor in place, I can see how the lights will play off of...
Category: Props
Props and animatronics
Kilauea Cove Build — Part 4: Shelves, Trim & Decor
Now that the walls are covered, the next step is the shelves and trim. There’s already some bamboo molding, but we’ve also got some carved tiki trim in store. Bottle...
Kilauea Cove Build — Part 3: Paint, Reed & Bamboo
As noted in the last update, I got the NeoPixel RGB LEDs working with the Raspberry Pi. I then cut the long NeoPixel strand into strips and glued them to...
Kilauea Cove: Raspberry Pi-controlled Active Volcano!
Since the last Kilauea Cove update, there have been a lot of updates to the Cove, and the Raspberry Pi-controlled volcano feature is now active in my basement tiki nook....
Kilauea Cove Build — Part 2: Raspberry Pi LED Control
I’m controlling everything in this project with a Raspberry Pi 2, a system on a chip. Essentially it’s a really tiny Linux computer that you can use for most anything...
Kilauea Cove Build — Part 1
I’m gonna build a volcano. Movies are a huge passion in my life, so of course I have a screening room (which most other people would probably call a “home...
