Meet the New Igorbox Controllers
This is the post I have been wanting to write for over a year.
After all the late nights, the rebuilds, the quiet, and the long stretch of working hand-in-hand with professional haunts and escape rooms, I am so unbelievably proud to introduce the new IgorBox controller lineup. Three controllers. One platform. Built from the ground up with the people who actually use this stuff in the field.
One platform, three controllers
Every controller in the new lineup is built on the same foundation — the same network stack, the same audio hardware, the same setup flow, and the same IgorBox Studio experience. Ethernet or WiFi. Stereo line out and 32 GB of onboard storage on every single one.
Pick whichever controller fits the job. They all speak the same language.
What's new across the whole lineup
Three of the things I'm most proud of are not features of any one controller — they're the new shared experience that runs through all of them.
- WAGO® connectors on every terminal. No more screw terminals, no more stripped wires backing out mid-show. Lever-clamp connectors on every input, every output, every power and audio terminal. Wires go in fast and they stay in.
- Easywire™ guided wiring. When you're wiring up a channel, the controller lights up an LED right at the terminal you should be touching. No squinting at silkscreen, no counting terminals from the left. The board tells you where to wire.
- Magic Provision. Adding a controller to your account used to be the worst part of the day. Now it's a setup ID and one screen in Studio. No DHCP scavenger hunts. No serial-cable rituals. Just scan the QR Code on the serial number label, add it to your studio, and boot it up. It configures itself!
These are the things you didn't know to ask for that you're going to feel every single day.
Output 8 MKII
The everyday workhorse. The follow-up to the original Output 8, refined with everything we learned during early access.
The headline feature is our Multistate Relay™ technology. Six of the eight outputs can switch between standard relay and solid-state mode in software. You no longer have to commit at install time to whether a channel is for a powering a solenoid or for closing a connection.
Two 3A relays for the heavier inrush stuff. Two isolated inputs for triggers. This is the controller you reach for when you need pneumatics, lights, and motors all in one box.
Read the Output 8 MKII overview →
Input 16
This is the one I am the most personally excited about, because it is genuinely a new shape of product for us.
Sixteen isolated inputs in a single box. Plus two 1.5A relay outputs for maglocks, indicators, or trigger wires to other systems. Every button, footswitch, reed sensor, IR beam, RFID reader, photo gate, and puzzle prop in your attraction can report to one place — and from there, Logic Rules decides what happens next.
For escape rooms especially, this is a huge unlock. The entire room's puzzle logic can live as one visual rule with all sixteen inputs feeding into it. No more thinking about which controller "owns" which sensor.
LED Controller
Sixteen low-current dimmable channels at 12V or 24V. Smooth dimming, perfect for indicator panels, puzzle boards, "puzzle solved" lights, or driving the input of an external power stage.
When you need real lighting loads — panel LEDs, parcans, spotlights, strips — pair it with the RGBW-PWR breakout and you get up to 120W of lighting across 4 channels per board.
It also has two isolated inputs, because we want it to drop into existing systems without hassle.
Read the LED Controller overview →
What ties it all together
This is the part that I think is honestly the bigger story.
Every one of these controllers shows up in Studio the same way. You provision them the same way. You wire them the same way. You build shows for them the same way. The Input 16 doesn't have a different "input language" than the Output 8 MKII. The LED Controller's two isolated inputs work just like every other isolated input on the platform. Any input on any controller in your studio can trigger any show on any controller! No wires required! No more running output relays to inputs for triggering. Use the onboard relays for your show. Use our interconnected system to design how you want it triggered.
That consistency is not an accident. It is what we spent the last year fighting for. It's why we tore so much down and rebuilt it. Every haunt and escape room partner we worked with told us the same thing in different words: make it predictable, make it consistent, make it reliable, and make it stop fighting me. So that's what we built.
Thank you
To the haunts and escape rooms who let us into your spaces, ran our prototypes through real shows, and gave us the kind of feedback you can only get from people doing the work — thank you. You shaped this. Your fingerprints are on every page of the docs and every line of the firmware.
To everyone who waited through the silence — thank you for sticking with us. I hope this was worth the wait.
If you're at ECHC this weekend, come find us at booth 514. We'll have all three controllers up and running, and I would love to put one in your hands.
If you're not at the show, the docs are live now. Start with the Lineup Overview and pick the one that fits your build.
Let's make some magic.