With more than 3,500 tracks, there’s something for everybody. But if you want to truly get people’s skin crawling, try some of the high-quality sounds in Ambiance, an app designed for relaxation. From Apple Music to Spotify, there are lots of spooky tracks to play beyond Thriller. The next decision is what to stream through these devices. Or for bigger sound (and a music-synced light show, to boot) the JBL Pulse 2 is a great choice - though at $200 it’s priced a lot higher than your typical Halloween decoration. Small, portable speakers like the JBL Clip+ can fit in medium-sized pumpkins. With the an abundance of Bluetooth speakers on the market, its easier than ever to slip some sound into your creepy creation. Inside the Jack-o-Lantern, the toy will spin its wheels, but it’s the visitor who will likely take off running. Just drop an old remote-controlled car into the carved out pumpkin, wait until someone is approaching your door, and hit the accelerator. While the ghoulish fiends at Make have a great tutorial on adding mechanical motion to a Jack-o-Lantern, you don’t need to master motors to add an element of mischief. There’s nothing creepier than something that goes bump in the night, so try adding motion to your pumpkin to startle your guests right. Pairing the bowl-shaped light with a motion sensor like WeMo Motion via the web interconnection service IFTTT can make your pumpkin come to light, and life, when a trick-or-treater steps onto your porch. If you have a Philips Hue system - and a large enough pumpkin - the Hue Go portable smart light is web-connected, letting users turn it on, off, and change the color via an accompanying smartphone app. To up your LED game a tick, try using a smart light instead. For more elaborate pumpkin displays, the Särdal LED lighting strand can be positioned in and around your decoration, throwing light while remaining cool to the touch. The Stöpen LED tea light set offers an authentic-looking, flickering glow that might fool people into thinking you’ve got a real flame going. Ikea has a few inexpensive battery-powered lighting options for safer Halloween fun. A fire hazard when left unattended, old-fashioned carved pumpkins might look more authentic, but in the age of LEDs, there’s no reason to leave danger to chance. Though we’re far removed from the days when Jack-o-Lanterns were used to drive away evil spirits, they’re still very scary when paired with their original lighting source: candles. And if you don’t have a 3-D printer - and most people don’t - you can use one at UPS Store locations near you. Thingiverse, an online repository of downloadable 3-D printing files, has a great Halloween collection full of tombstones, monsters, and other spooky baubles. While Dremels are great at whittling away at a pumpkin, 3-D printing can add something special.
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