Animatronics in Make: Magazine Volume 90 - Print

Make: Volume 90 - Animatronics!

In this issue of Make: follow along as FX designer Jesse Velez builds a custom haunted deer animatronic based on the Evil Dead series. Next, we show you how to make a set of 3D-printed ghosts dance to music using Bottango’s free animatronic software. Then add some personality to your next creature build with a pair of simple, lifelike mechatronic eyes, and take it a step further with a mechanism to simulate realistic breathing patterns. Plus, 33+ projects:

* Use projection mapping to make any building a screen for multimedia shows, at Halloween or anytime

* Build a sunlight sensing plant rotator so your leafy friends always get the best light

* Learn to make perfectly aligned vector images from skewed photographs

* Explore hidden frequencies with an EMF audio amplifier

* Make a traditional tortilla press for the freshest tacos

* Hack a monster toy with a simple LED circuit for a whimsical desktop status light

* Solve 3D design problems using ChatGPT

* And much more!