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Tired of the same song on a loop?
Your prop already knows when to make noise. This board listens for that moment and plays YOUR sound instead. Your voice, your music, a movie clip, your kid screaming. The timing just works, because the prop is still doing the timing.
Nothing to rewire. Nothing to reprogram. And when you want to change the sounds, you pull out your phone.
WILL IT FIT MY PROP?One question answers it: DOES YOUR PROP MAKE SOUND ON ITS OWN RIGHT NOW? If yes, this board takes that sound over.
- Jack Skellington 6 ft animatronic, plugs straight in
- Sally 6 ft animatronic, fits
- Jack 6.5 ft Deluxe / 77 in, fits
- Jack 13 ft Giant Animated, fits
- Other Gemmy props with a speaker, fits
Gemmy builds most of the licensed animatronics sold at the big box stores, and they share the same basic wiring, so this is not limited to one character.
GOT AN INFLATABLE INSTEAD? The 10 ft Reaching Jack is the one we get asked about most, and the answer is yes. Blow-ups are a fan and some lights with no speaker inside, so there is nothing for the board to listen to. The same board still does the job, it just gets set up the other way round: it runs its own speaker on its own timer, so it fires on a schedule instead of following the prop. Send us a message through and we will sort you out.
Most props plug straight in. A few use a different speaker plug and need a simple splice instead. Message us with your model and we will tell you which.
HOW IT WORKS (about a minute, honestly)1. Plug it in with the included USB-C cable, and plug the included red and black cable into the prop\'s own board.
2. On your phone, join the Wi-Fi network whose name starts with \"Jack-\". There is no password, and the menu opens by itself the way a hotel sign-in page does. No app to download, no account, no signup.
3. Drag your MP3s in. Set the volume. Done.
INSTRUCTIONS COME IN THE BOXEvery board ships with a printed setup card: plug it in, join his Wi-Fi, open the menu. The menu itself walks you through the rest, and the wiring is two cables that only fit one way. If you get stuck, send us a message here on and we will walk you through it.
NO INTERNET NEEDEDThe board makes its own Wi-Fi and serves the menu itself. It does not need your home network, your router, or our servers. It works in a yard with no signal.
Putting it on your home Wi-Fi is optional, switched off out of the box, and only useful if you ever want us to help you troubleshoot. It needs 2.4 GHz, which almost every home router still broadcasts.
WORKS ON ANYTHING WITH A WEB BROWSERPC, iPhone, Android, tablet, an old laptop from a drawer. Nothing to install and nothing to keep updated, because the board serves the page itself.
WHAT YOU CAN DO FROM THE MENU
- Add a song from your phone, or load the included microSD card on a computer, or both
- Record a clip with your phone\'s own recorder. The board trims the silence off both ends and evens out the level before it saves
- Group your sounds into playlists
- Play or stop any track, with a progress bar
- Set the volume, and it is remembered after a power cut
- Choose how long he sings: let the board learn your prop\'s own animation length, fix it to a number of seconds, or play the whole song
- Choose how it plays: with the prop (the normal one), on a timer for props that make no sound of their own, or non-stop for one song after another
- Pick the colour of his eyes and his nose, and the brightness (Rev 4 boards)
- Give the board a name, so Porch Jack and Graveyard Jack stay straight
- Lock the menu with a PIN, so nobody at the party rewrites your playlist
MORE THAN ONE PROP?Every board makes its own Wi-Fi network, named after itself, and keeps its own songs and its own settings. Two Jacks in one yard never get confused for each other, and you set them up one at a time.
REV 4, THE CURRENT BOARD
- Colour-changing eyes and nose. Pumpkin orange for Halloween, red and green for Christmas, your call. The nose flickers like a candle, which is also how you know the board is running
- Smarter power. It takes the prop\'s 5 V when that is connected and falls back to USB-C, never feeds one supply back into the other, and shuts itself down on a fault instead of letting parts cook
- A BOOT button on the back: one tap brings the setup Wi-Fi back if you ever lose it, and five seconds clears a forgotten menu PIN
- A motion sensor input, fitted and wired. The software does not start songs from it yet, so leave it empty for now
WHAT YOU GET
- 1x assembled and tested sound board, shaped like his head
- 1x microSD card, already fitted
- 1x red and black trigger cable with a plug on both ends. It joins the board to the prop\'s original board, and nothing in the prop can do this job, so keep it with the board
- 1x USB-C cable, a full 10 feet. These props are tall, and a 3 foot cable leaves you balancing one on a chair next to the outlet. Ask us how we know
- 1x printed setup card
GOOD TO KNOWBuilt in small batches and always improving, so what arrives may differ slightly in design from the photos as we refine the boards and add features. The setup steps stay the same. The board is not waterproof: keep it inside the prop, out of the rain.
Every board is flashed and tested before it ships. Message us here on any time, including to check your prop before you buy.