Diy animatronics tutorials

Halloween Props That Turn to Look at You As You Walk By: Interactive Halloween props are always fun and they are surprisingly easy to make. This year I designed a simple system that rotates a skull to face you and follows you movements as you walk by. To accomplish this I used light sensors to detect…

DIY Animatronic Dragon!: Animatronic dragon created in order to have a first approach to animatronics. This dragon is going to be taking care of its treasure and whenever it feels someone approaching, it will want to protect it, so that it won’t be stolen. For doing so it w…

Simple Animatronics With Servos and Arduino: Servos are surprisingly easy to use. Even more so than simple DC motors and steppers when you have a microcontroller. In this instructable we'll use a 'duino to drive five servos which will control a doll's limbs and neck. I bought the servos at Ho…

DIY Talking/Music/Sound Effect Playing Styrofoam Gravestone With Hidden Bluetooth Speaker: A unique way to add a little extra spooky to your Halloween graveyard is by adding audio effects that seem to come from nowhere and everywhere at the same time. I will show you how I easily turned Styrofoam gravestones into completely stealth batter…

Are you the kind of person who would love to have an animatronic Gary Coleman on your shelf, his little pudgy face cursing like a sailor at your guests while you roller skate around your basement wearing a skin-tight rubber suit and sing reggae-infused Coldplay covers? If you said "Absolutely!" then read on.

Edit: See the working prototype here. I've gotten a few requests to put up a tutorial for building a robotic head. I'm assuming if you want to build a robotic head, you'll have some experience using an arduino, servos, and some other language that can interface between a webcam and the arduino. I used processing as my interface between the arduino and my webcam. I'm also using the OpenCV library for processing. I'll describe the overarching structure behind the code to give the illusion that…

DIY Compact 3D Printed Animatronic Eye Mechanism: My previous instructable was an attempt to make an eye mechanism that was as accessible as possible to as many people as possible, but in this project I wanted to design something that was more of a middle-ground between accessibility and quality.…

Modify a Talking Skull to Say Anything You Want: Every Halloween, inexpensive talking skulls are available as decorations. They look good, but they have a tiny speaker inside them, making them hard to understand. And they only say a few pre-programmed things. What if you could hack one so that you…

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