Trick or Treat! Adafruit products featured in Netflix Halloween Doorbell #ElectronicHalloween

Check out this awesome Netflix Halloween Doorbell featuring lots of treats from Adafruit!

Give trick-or-treaters a scream while you stream.

It’s Halloween night and you’re just settling in for a scary movie marathon when…“Trick-or-treat!” Every Halloween, Netflix pause rates spike as viewers around the country get up to give out candy. But this year, you can stay inside while Netflix handles Halloween—for you and your ghoulish guests. The Netflix Halloween Doorbell welcomes trick-or-treaters with spooky sounds and music from your favorite Netflix shows and points them to candy, so you can treat yourself to a night of non-stop spooky streaming.

Ready to DIY your doorbell? Before you get started.

In order to hack your Halloween and build your decoy doorbell, you should be comfortable with basic electronics, physical fabrication, and Arduino programming.

There are some other other tricky touches you can add to your doorbell, but we’ll get to that later.

How it works.

The Netflix Halloween Doorbell is hung right over your existing doorbell, temporarily hiding it from trick-or-treaters. As trick-or-treaters approach the house, a proximity sensor in the doorbell triggers the theme song from your chosen Netflix show. Pressing the doorbell initiates a scream from that show’s characters and reveals a customizable message to your costumed guests on an LCD display screen. (E.g. Treating myself to Netflix. Take your treat.) DIY-ers can also customize their device with 3D printable acrylic faceplates inspired by their favorite Netflix shows.

See the full tutorial here.

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Featured Adafruit Products!

1.8″ Color TFT LCD display with MicroSD Card Breakout – ST7735R: This lovely little display breakout is the best way to add a small, colorful and bright display to any project. Since the display uses 4-wire SPI to communicate and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of microcontroller. Even a very small one with low memory and few pins available! Read more.

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Adafruit Pro Trinket – 5V 16MHz: Trinket’s got a big sister in town – the Pro Trinket 5V! Pro Trinket combines everything you love about Trinket with the familiarity of the common core Arduino chip, the ATmega328. It’s like an Arduino Pro Mini with more pins and USB tossed in, so delicious. Read more.

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Every day this month we’ll be bringing you ideas and projects for an Electronic Halloween! Expect wearables, hacks & mods, costumes and more here on the Adafruit blog! Working on a project for Halloween this year? Share it with us on Google+, in the comments below, the Adafruit forums, Facebook, or Twitter— we’d love to see what you’re up to and share it with the world (tag your posts #ElectronicHalloween). You can also send us a blog tip! Tune in to our live shows, 3D hangouts with Noe and Pedro and Ask an Engineer, featuring store discount codes, ideas for projects, costumes, decorations, and more!