Thread: Crawling Skeleton (New Version)

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Dave, that is great! I love the movement. I got 4 of those motors when I was going to build your tombstone peeper. Uh, I never actually did it, still hoping to. Now I know what I'd like to do with 2 of them. But not for this year.

That is sooooo damn cool!! Nice work!

Is this the motor part number that you used form Electronic Goldmine??

Item Number : G16034

Unit Price: $7.95

Looks great, Dave! I like that lurching motion when the motors sync up. I'm curious - what do you do when the skelly reaches the limit of the power cord?

Nice work. I would like to build something like that but I would want to be able to reset it back to it's starting position so I would have to go looking for it after a half hour.

Hey Dave this is really cool. I read what Otaku wrote and it got me thinking. If you put a swivel on a stake so the power supply could turn with the skeleton, and chained it to the stake would it pull itself in a circle? Kind of like those helicopters on a wire.

REally really neat and awesomely creepy

Makes me want to adapt him into an Alien form for our haunt. You win my best prop award!

You have to post video of the end product in its final resting place at night. Or as some ToT sees it for the first time.

SWEET!

Thanks for all the compliments, everyone!
As far as what happens when the skeleton gets to the end of the cord--it will drag the AC/DC adapter behind it along with the extension cord. So, I guess it could go a far as your cord has slack in it. I normally have the skeleton plugged into a keychain remote trigger. So it's only powered for short periods of time. Like someone will pose for a picture by it, then i just hit the remote and start it moving!

scareisburg--These little motors have quite a bit of torque. If you used a 1 amp or 1.5 amp AC/DC Adapter you would get even more power out of it.

It's hard to say how long it took to build, since I shelved it several times. After I get the tutorial posted it shouldn't take too long. The hardest part to me is making the arms, rib cage and head. I originally wanted this chassis to fit in a Blucky skeleton, but it wouldn't have looked or worked right in that small blucky chest cavity.

Here's the links for the motor and AC/DC adapter I used:

Super Power 12VDC Gear Motor-The Electronic Goldmine

Heavy Duty 12VDC 500ma Adapter-The Electronic Goldmine

Brushe---I don't think it would go in a circle. It would probably get to the end of it's cord and just crawl in place! Then it would eventually dig itself a new grave.

I'll try to get some video this Halloween. I have previous vids of it, but they're not digital.

Maybe next year we could use the tutorial and build this in the Group Prop Build.

I wonder if you could attach a line to the crawler that runs back to a switch and when it gets to the end of the line it pulls it tight activating the switch and reversing the crawler. Or you could put it on a timer/controller and have it change from reverse to forward at a set interval...(as if we don't have enough to do before Halloween). However, the remote provides the absolute best timing for the ultimate scare!