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  • Date Created: 13 Nov 2019 8:31 PM Date Created
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Hey Moogle - an animatronic moose assistant

easyejl
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13 Nov 2019

My wife and I went to see Evil Dead - The Musical, and I was entranced by the moose puppet on the wall. I thought "Heck, it would be easy enough to make an animatronics moose to have at home", so I set out on this project.

 

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Basic plan steps are

  • Acquire moose head puppet
  • Acquire robotic arm + servos
  • Begin programming pi - Basically can use most of the Google AYO voice pieces, need to add some references to pulse audio to capture the sound as he's speaking, to use to move the mouth
  • Assemble pieces
  • Laugh a lot

 

Steps completed

Moose head puppet on the way from ebay!

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Robotic arm on order

Google AYO kit reformatted back to original and programming has begun!

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  • easyejl
    easyejl over 5 years ago +4
    Made some modifications to the claw, and have it able to work a puppet mouth now. It's only slow because the pi is underpowered right now, I ran out of outlets. So its being powered by the USB port on…
  • easyejl
    easyejl over 5 years ago +4
    For the claw modifications, I took out the 2 pieces circled, set the other arms to be straight and then fully tightened them. They originally were set as loose, with a locking nut so that they could bend…
  • msebok
    msebok over 5 years ago +4
    really cool progress. I was looking at the google machine and found this link, I was trying to find other methods of articulation etc...I doubt it helps or gives any ideas with your current project, but…
  • easyejl
    easyejl over 4 years ago

    Well the board is done. So time to mount the arm, decide if there will be a bezel between the puppet and board, work out springs for the arm weight and assemble him up

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    easyejl over 5 years ago in reply to dubbie

    It's definitely taken longer than expected. Luckily being a software developer I've been minimally impacted by all the stay at home things, but amazingly its given me less time for other projects. I'm not sure how image

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  • dubbie
    dubbie over 5 years ago in reply to easyejl

    Looking forward to seeing the final implementation.

     

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    easyejl over 5 years ago in reply to msebok

    I actually started doing the work on the board this weekend. sanded it and clear epoxy filled the worst areas. I wanted to do that before coating the rest mostly to stabilize it. maybe an evening this week or at worst this weekend i'm going to epoxy coat the rest, then I can start the mounting + final assembly!

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    msebok over 5 years ago in reply to easyejl

    Hope you are well. Still very curious about this guy!!

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