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Hey Moogle - an animatronic moose assistant

easyejl

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.

 

 

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!

  • 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 an older Surface Pro. Not exactly high output.

     

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/tsxuZYUzNTZafeCn9

  • in reply to dubbie

    I'm now on my 3rd 3d printer, a resin one this time, for that reason. Started modifying a Tevo Tarantula to make it a quick change head system (to easily swap nozzle sizes) and now it sits there with the last (failed) print still on it for close to 2 years now. The elegoo mars has nothing really modifiable on it, and prints spectacularly as is.




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  • in reply to easyejl

    It always takes longer. In fact, no matter how long you have it will always take longer and that is why projects are never finished, they just stop when you run out of time/get fed up/something more interesting comes along.

     

    Dubbie

  • One thing i've learned is that this can certainly take a LOT longer than it seems up front to take a project from start to finish image

  • I've also built a second arm. The link to it is here

    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33010121287.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.5d3c4c4dvDMqvK

    Simple, nice to put together, and inexpensive. Came with M996R servos, no controller. I still need to modify the claw to move fast enough and in an appropriate manner for a puppet mouth. I used this with a pi and a servo hat, worked nicely outside of 2 of the joints barely having enough power to move if the whole arm is extended straight horizontally. I might add some springs to give it tension that way, or replace those 2 servos with higher torque ones.




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