Thread: LOTW 3-Axis Skeleton

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I've got my 3-axis skull and singing pumpkin working!!!


YouTube - Legend of the Wood 3-Axis Skeleton

Wow! That's totally cool!
The movements are really life-like! Or death-like should I say?
Love the pumpkin too! Great work!

Thanks. I used TrackSkull and a joystick to get a first-cut at the movement and then did detailed editing in VSA.

I saw this on Youtube, great work!

Nelson,

Thanks. Track Skull really made the process of developing a VSA script possible. I doubt that I'd be anywhere without it. This weekend, I'm experimenting with Helmsman and so far the results have been excellent!!

Very cool,great job. What skeleton did you use? Seems like that would be hard to do. Congrats on a job well done.

kprimm,

I built a body "frame" from 1" PVC pipe that only cost me about $10. I got the skull from Graveyard Skulls (similar to a Bucky but lighter) and I got a pair of skeleton hands from Mr. Skeleton. The pumpkin is a $7 plastic version that I got on sale at a crafts store.

Asterix0

Here are a few pics of the skeleton's insides www.legendofthewood.com - 2009 3 Axis Skeleton with Singing Pumpkin

Hey Asterix,

How did you make the LEDs for the pumpkin blink? I am wanting to make a set of singing pumpkins this year and all the other ones I have seen use DMX lights (too complicated) or normal AC lights with a relay.

jumanji,

I used this board //www.pimpmyprop.com/LEDEyesDetails.htm connected to an SCC-32 card. The board made eye control easy and you could run an entire pumpkin patch with an SCC-32

Asterix0