Looking in the Picboo manual, it has two types of sounds:
- Ambient
- Scare
The Ambient sound plays while the Picboo is waiting for someone to come along. It's a sort of general background sound, they say to make it pretty long because it will eventually loop, and you don't want people hearing the sound start over. Then when the motion sensor spots someone, the Picoboo plays a "scare" sound.
The "scares" are one way you could have have the skull talk. However, the limitation is that while you can record up to 10 scare sounds and have the Picboo play them one at a time when it is triggered, the total time for all the scare sounds added together seems to be two minutes (that's what I get from their manual). If you give your skull a bunch of short phrases then that would work out well. I don't know the song you're referring to, but songs by themselves are usually about three to four minutes long.
There's no point in getting the Cowlacious Audio Board - that just duplicates what's already inside the Picboo, including the ability to have it trigger other props. The Cowlacious Audio Board only seems to be able to play one phrase back and does not have the ambient sound feature (but then it's less expensive, too.)
The other thing to watch out for - the skull you got in the kit is a "Bucky" skull, and those are pretty heavy. They look great because they are originally designed to teach anatomy. The problem may be putting it on top of a skeleton body and keeping it in place while the whole thing rocks back and forth. I have one of those, I had to make a PVC stand to hold it up.
- Ambient
- Scare
The Ambient sound plays while the Picboo is waiting for someone to come along. It's a sort of general background sound, they say to make it pretty long because it will eventually loop, and you don't want people hearing the sound start over. Then when the motion sensor spots someone, the Picoboo plays a "scare" sound.
The "scares" are one way you could have have the skull talk. However, the limitation is that while you can record up to 10 scare sounds and have the Picboo play them one at a time when it is triggered, the total time for all the scare sounds added together seems to be two minutes (that's what I get from their manual). If you give your skull a bunch of short phrases then that would work out well. I don't know the song you're referring to, but songs by themselves are usually about three to four minutes long.
There's no point in getting the Cowlacious Audio Board - that just duplicates what's already inside the Picboo, including the ability to have it trigger other props. The Cowlacious Audio Board only seems to be able to play one phrase back and does not have the ambient sound feature (but then it's less expensive, too.)
The other thing to watch out for - the skull you got in the kit is a "Bucky" skull, and those are pretty heavy. They look great because they are originally designed to teach anatomy. The problem may be putting it on top of a skeleton body and keeping it in place while the whole thing rocks back and forth. I have one of those, I had to make a PVC stand to hold it up.