Animatronics

  • HTTP 418 (Proof of Concept)

    HTTP 418 (Proof of Concept)

    If you’ve browsed the internet for a while, you’d prolly be familiar with the HTTP status code “404 Not found” but have you ever come across “418 I’m a teapot“? This code was an April Fool’s joke that got codified into the protocol and it inspired me to make a voice assistant in a teapot […]

  • Animatronic Crow

    Animatronic Crow

    Inspired by Mr Chicken’s Animatronic Raven, I created set out to create an animatronic crow of my own. At time of writing as well as when I was researching for the project, his DIY kit for it is sold out. Prototype For the outer shell of the shell, Mr Chicken uses a vacuum formed shell […]

  • 4 DoF Eye Mechanism

    4 DoF Eye Mechanism

    When Will Cogley released a no hardware version of his animatronic Eye Mechanism, I tried to printing it to no success. While my printer is not the most accurate machine, I was disappointed to find that not only did the printed components not fit together but the servos wouldn’t fit into the huge base piece. […]