HALLOWEEN 2024! Dave gives a tour of his 2024 Haunt at his niece’s home in North Carolina. See some Tombstone Tech Cheap Creeps in action! Projects used in this video: Fog Chiller – No More Batteries – Silk Flame Cauldron –Deconstructing Walter – Artificial Candles – Can Lights
Can Lights! Build your own simple light fixture for LED floodlights that are easy to mount anywhere. Plus, tips on using LED bulbs.
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 – Easy and inexpensive way to make candles for your haunt. Super lightweight and battery powered, these realistic candles can be placed anywhere!
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 – 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 – 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 – 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.
AN ANOUNCEMENT – An important announcement about the future of the Tombstone Tech YouTube channel.
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.
