Jacob’s Ladder!

Jacob’s Ladder! No mad scientist’s laboratory is complete without a Jacob’s Ladder to bring your diabolical creation to life! In this Cheap Creep, Dave shows you how to build one of your very own! Or does he? Watch and find out! Also, introducing TombstoneTech.com! You can purchase and download the materials to create this effect

Artificial Candles!

ARTIFICIAL CANDLES – Easy and inexpensive way to make candles for your haunt. Super lightweight and battery powered, these realistic candles can be placed anywhere!

Deck the Halls!

HAUNT DECK THE HALLS – Decorating isn’t just for Halloween! Dave shares a few Christmas decorating tips that also have haunt applications and shows how the No Ladder Pro tool is useful for hanging lights or possibly running different types of cables out-of-the-way at your haunt. Happy Holidays from Tombstone Tech!

Deconstructing Walter

DECONSTRUCTING WALTER – Walter is a banjo-playing and talkative skeleton from Dave’s haunt, but after many years of service, he’s due for some refurbishing. In this video, Dave explains how Walter uses Scary Terry’s Audio Servo Board to talk, and then does a rebuild of Walter’s “strumming” mechanism and other improvements.

The Silk Flame!

THE SILK FLAME – An easy, safe and inexpensive artificial fire effect. Can be scaled up or down depending on the size of the fan and where you want to mount the effect. The parts links below are for the Silk Flame as built in the video. Perfect for cauldrons, skulls, torches, and other props

MORE About LEDs

MORE ABOUT LEDs – By request! More about LEDs including brightness ratings and running multiple LEDs on a single power supply. Plus a Cheap Creep for running a string of LEDs.

Run Your Battery Powered Props from a Wall Outlet

BYE BYE BATTERIES – How to eliminate batteries from a prop or other device and plug it in to an outlet – the first Tombstone Tech viewer-suggested episode! Dave offers some thoughts on why and why not to do this and includes a detailed tutorial.

Cheap Creep – The Fog Chiller

THE FOG CHILLER – Got ground fog? No? Want it? Watch this video and learn how easy it is to build a Fog Chiller to use with your fog machine!

Fog Machines 101

FOG MACHINES 101 – A rundown on fog machines, how they work, and some things you can do with them!