Animating the Skeleton
Wiring up a 12ft Home Depot skeleton with servos, Arduino, and an iOS app — using ARKit to puppet a giant skeleton in real time from your phone.
A fellow Halloween prop builder shared their animatronic setup
I love it! Do you have any other props you’ve done in the past? I’d love to see them!
The skeleton lives.
I’m quite excited about this progress. An awesome meld of iOS dev, Arduino, and the 12ft skeleton. Planning to use this to program routines, but maybe also for live interactions!
"How responsive is it? What servos are you using?" — @MediumFidelity
TBH, I didn’t know much about any of this until I started this project. My contribution was mostly realizing I could wire up iOS/ARKit. I too was impressed with how responsive it was able to be. I figured I’d have to throttle it.