3D Printed Animatonic Ghosts
Bottango worked with Make Magazine to bring you this entirely 3D Printable Halloween animatronic project.
Check the digital version of the article for all the building details, instructions, etc. On this page you'll find all the required files and supplemental materials to help you build this project.
Big thanks as well to Louie Zong for permission to animate these ghosts along with his Ghost Choir song/video.
Watch them go!
Here's the final result of the built in animation for these singing ghosts. You'll also be able to program and make your own animations in Bottango as well!
Project Downloads
Updated Aug 1st, fixed some errors in the model files.
Updated Aug 3rd, fixed incorrect pin assignment in animation project
Model Files Servo Center Arduino Sketch Bottango Animation ProjectBottango Application
The animation project file uses features from the upcoming next version of Bottango, not the stable build on the main website. Here is the latest preview version. This site will be updated when the required features are released to the main site build.
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Feel free as well to help improve this project. As suggestions and improvements come in from the community, I'll work to incorporate them into the files on this page.
Materials Notes:
The full material list is in the article. For some more details on some of the elements, see below:
• 6x Standard Sized Servos (Ex: MG996R, or better quality).
Note that I recommend you pick some better servos than the MG996R, the main thing you'll want to make sure of is that they fit the dimensions of a "standard size servo."
• 6x Metal servo horns with M3 bolt holes (Ex: ShareGoo Metal 25T Servo Horn)
The most important element to match my build is to have the same metal servo horns. If you're up to it, you could modify the STEP files to fit other horns, but if you can match my horns you'll be off to the races.
Here's two example Amazon links for this horn, it's a generic piece with multiple resellers.
• Servo Power source
Here's Bottango's power shield, as used in the article: https://www.bottango.com/products/bottango-servo-shield
Note that for the entire build you only need one Bottango power shield. Both ghosts run off a single Arduino and Bottango Shield.
You could also use the Servo City Servo Power Board: https://www.servocity.com/8-channel-servo-power-node/ which has international distributors as well.
• 5v5a power supply
If you're using the Bottango power shield, this Amazon power adapter works:
• 8x Any M3 rod end ball joints
The exact make and model here doesn't matter, as long as it fits on an m3 threaded rod, and can have an m3 bolt in the ball end.
Here's one Amazon example: https://a.co/d/0YM5TlH
And here's another:
• 3D Printer
Bambu Labs P1S used in the example. You may need to resize or split up the ghosts shells if your printer can't fit the whole bodies. Just make sure you keep the attachment holes the same size and position at the top of the heads.
Also if printing glow-in-the-dark filament as in the article, that's SUPER abrasive material. Make sure your printer can print glow-in-the-dark filament without being damaged.
