I spent an afternoon helping my buddy, Josh, set up an animated Halloween prop outside his house. It’s a sound-activated Grim Reaper on a rope that makes creepy noises and travels back and forth across a chord.

Sadly, we learned later that afternoon that the device is a piece of crap. It only reacts to relatively loud sounds (like clapping hands from a short distance), and it doesn’t move too well across the chord.

I made this video to mock it.