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Skully - Animatronic Skull

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  • Mandible.stl
  • Skull_Bottom_Cut.stl
  • Skull_Top_Cut.stl
  • assembly_reference.stl
  • gimball_large_bottom.stl
  • gimball_large_top.stl
  • gimball_link.stl
  • neck.stl
  • skull.obj
  • skull.scad
  • skull.scad
  • skull_top.stl

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Publication date 2023-06-22 at 01:45
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Published to Thingiverse on: 2019-10-11 at 07:01
Design number 1284644

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Decided to create an animatronic skull for halloween!
https://youtu.be/Btx1_whzzn8

This motion control is inspired by this video by Bottled Lightning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwPx53iEUiY
I thought I'd try making the servos part of the UV mechanism itself.

Printing:
I printed this on a 150mm by 200mm print bed
When printing the top of the head I chose zero bottom layers, no infill and 3 perimiters to get a hollow part.

Assembly:
I hollowed out the skull this is remixed from and made room for some servos..

The mandible is attached by drilling holes in the bottom of the skull and through the upper part of the mandible, and another small hole is drilled to attach fishing line to a 9G servo mounted to the underneath of the plate.

There's a hexagon shape for a 5/16" threaded rod coupler, which is attached to a threaded rod, I use it, some nuts and a bracket attached to an old chair to hold the skeleton in place, with the little neck disk to help hold the skeleton in place.

It's controlled using a Raspberry Pi and an html 5 capable browser with a USB xbox 360 controller.

Here's the controller software I'm working on:
https://github.com/JustDan1979/skully

You can add mp3 files to the assets folder, and modify the songdefinitions.json file to point at those files, also edit the servo definition file to account for the pin number and fine tune the servo positions.

For servos controller, I'm using an AIY Voice Shield (V1) from Google, however I'm only using the button that came with the kit, and the audio out to desktop speakers.

For the eyes, I'm using glass baubles and 1.44" SPI LCD modules from Adafruit: https://learn.adafruit.com/animated-electronic-eyes-using-teensy-3-1/3d-printing

I ended up making my own "shield" using protoboard and using rainbow wire to connect to the

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