Hi dudes
I’m building an animatronic worm, i want him to sing, blink and move his eye brows so i need 3 servos, i’m completely new to the animatronic side of things, usually i’m just sculpt and mold, but i wanted to learn a bit more about this side of things to keep the synapses firing ! the puppet is for my own pleasure, i hope to take him on the street when he’s finished to sing frank sinatra and pantera songs ! So i need 3 servos but i wanted to see if anyone can help me with how to power the servos.
The puppet is operated by 2 joysticks that move the head and body, the puppet is sat on top of a trash bin so all the servos will be hidden in there. I want to put a button on the top of each joystick that will move the mouth and brows when i press them, so a remote control button device that will activate the servos, what remote control button activated power packs are there out there that will do this ?
I also want a power pack that will activate the servo for the eye blinks on a timed interval out of my control, just so it goes off every 7 secs or so.
please have a look at the pictures i’ve attached of the mech (this is the mock up) any advice that could be given would be greatly appreciated.
thank you
p.s. the worm is called Aylmer and is from an old b movie called brain damage, heres a link to a clip if you haven’t seen it !
youtube.com/watch?v=9Sh9N-wg-w0
