Twitch of the Death Nerve

By lefthandsh8k
@ Fri, 2009-10-23 19:09

Controlled by a pic 16f84a microcontroller, it responds to light and shadows in a brightly lit room. Made of plywood, paper clips and popsicle sticks, as far as mechanics.seven servos in all for actuators.The shell is vaccum formed plastic.The video is a bit different than the project at its current stage, as I ultimately wanted more dynamic movement, rather than eye and mouth movement. More video will be coming soon:)

The second video is with an arduino duemanilove board controlled by a single potentiometer.I'm going with the original pic because the movement is creepy and that works well for this particular project.

By isotope
@ Fri, 2009-10-23 19:26

Wow! Are you planning to put

Wow! Are you planning to put it outdoors on Helloween and scare the sh#^ out of neighborhood? :D

By lefthandsh8k
@ Fri, 2009-10-23 22:37

Yeah, actually that's

Yeah, actually that's precisely what I was planning:)

By echorobotics
@ Sat, 2009-10-24 01:45

awesome

haha! thats great!

By fritsl
@ Fri, 2009-10-23 19:54

Oh, very nice!I must say

Oh, very nice!

I must say that robot builders are very much alike. Your project and style totally reminds me of this other cool project: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/12032

By lefthandsh8k
@ Fri, 2009-10-23 22:38

The PIC is an awesome

The PIC is an awesome platform for robotics .I love it!

By ezekiel181
@ Sat, 2009-10-24 03:11

Jesus that`s creepy as hell!

Jesus that`s creepy as hell! 5 stars for freaking me out.

Did you vacuum form the shell yourself?

By lefthandsh8k
@ Sat, 2009-10-24 18:09

Yeah.It's a pretty simple

Yeah.It's a pretty simple process.But just so you know, the head is actually paper mache.I was kind of inspired by old automata from centuries past and thats why I tried that.I just saw the new paper mache post.I think it's really cool that I'm not the only guy who has tried that!

By D.Coy
@ Sun, 2009-10-25 05:24