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 It's time for Regan to speak up. I didn't have a digital voice recorder
handy for her voice, so I picked up a 10 second talking picture frame from Radio
Shack. Hacking into it I ran one wire to the hot lead under the button that you
push inside the photo frame to make it play back, and another lead to the
opposite side of the panel the IC board it attached to for the ground. Now,
touching the ends of the wire together will make the recorder play.
 Those two
lines will be going to both the ECT (timer) and to my motion trigger. You
can find the motion trigger (110 volt relay) on my how-to page Motion Trigger as
well. In this case the relay Regan will be using is a photo cell, so she will
trigger when hit with a beam of light from a flashlight. The power to the photo
cell came off of the same power strip, with the return wire bundled with the
others with zip ties to the scissor. Next I eliminated the batteries on this
little device by soldering on to the terminals the wires from an AC adaptor
which also plugged into the power strip. Since these batteries were all 1 1/2
volts each, I needed a low milliamp (100) , 6 volt adaptor. Finally, two more
leads were soldered to each speaker lead. These will be going into an amplified
computer speaker. If you try using this voice recorder, make sure you have the
power going to it correctly + and - otherwise you *will* smoke this delicate
device. My first one was a success, my second one for another event cost me two
recorders from that mistake.
 I took this $5 find from the thrift store apart and hacked the amplified
speaker line out of it to the speaker that came out of the second (stereo)
speaker of the mate speaker. I also unclipped the wires going to this amplified
speaker so I wouldn't have sound coming out of this amplification unit. This
bare speaker now will be mounted directly onto Regan's chest (would that be
breast?). The speaker box was then mounted directly to the side of the frame.
The power for it came from another AC adaptor also plugged into the power strip
above the ECT.
 At the bottom of the ribcage was a perfect sized cavity to mount the
speaker. Two long zip ties to the steel frame of the speaker made a factory type
fit .Then I fashioned the grill that was on the speaker box to fit around just
the speaker to keep it safe from flailing hands.
 Here's what
little Regan looks like in flight. I find she flies on only 27
pounds of air pressure and with the new muffler I designed this year for the
exhaust line, she is very very quiet. The recording of her voice is a ten second
clip I downloaded directly from an internet midi site that was from the bedroom
scene in the Exorcist movie where she was thrashing against her restraints.
Before triggering, she is genuinely frightening with her fading green eyes as
she hovers above the ground. When the air is triggered the scream is as well,
sending her from 6 feet in front of your face to three feet above your head,
 all
the while her terrifying scream is coming closer and closer. In the process of
building and adjusting her and triggering her many times, I don't think even
once she didn't catch me off guard enough to raise the hair all the way down my
legs. There is something astonishingly spooky about how she comes after you with
her arms moving backward as she flies and then ultimately clear above you when
the arms come reaching out forward. You would just have to
see
it to really get the full feel of the scare. To see reader's versions of the
Exorcist, click
here.
The Exorcist debuted in Schock Manor this year for 2002 and was clearly the
most disturbing of all the images we used that night. Screams were free.
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