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So I have an idea for this Halloween to use a full bucky skeleton outfitted with a 3 axis skull. He's going to sit on a railing next to our front door. I'm picturing him leaning against the house with one leg bent and sitting on the railing with the other sort of dangling off to the side. Sort of "just hanging out here waiting for trick or treaters."
I'm wanting to take some of those vinyl pop up eyes that novelty shops sell (you invert them and put them on the ground and they pop up in the air) and attach them to a board in a grid fashion (or the like) with a button behind each one. When one of the eyeballs is "pushed" by a TOTer it will have the bucky speak a random pre-programmed message. One of the eyes is actually going to be the doorbell. It is going to be sort of a "which eye is actually the one that gets me treats"
I'm trying to figure out the best way to do the audio. I'm sort of new to the animatronics end of things so I'm wondering of anyone has any ideas as to how I can pull this off. I guess it doesn't have to be random (unless it is easy to do). It could be that the third eye on the left always has bucky say "Nope, that ain't it." or whatever. If I can get this all worked out, one of the things I'd like to do is have one of the eyes, when pushed, actually make one of Bucky's eyes pop out (attached with a string so it can be wound back up) and have him say "Ouch, you poked my eye out!"
Anyway, any suggestions would be appreciated. I'll make sure I take photos when I start to build it.
Jared
I'm wanting to take some of those vinyl pop up eyes that novelty shops sell (you invert them and put them on the ground and they pop up in the air) and attach them to a board in a grid fashion (or the like) with a button behind each one. When one of the eyeballs is "pushed" by a TOTer it will have the bucky speak a random pre-programmed message. One of the eyes is actually going to be the doorbell. It is going to be sort of a "which eye is actually the one that gets me treats"
I'm trying to figure out the best way to do the audio. I'm sort of new to the animatronics end of things so I'm wondering of anyone has any ideas as to how I can pull this off. I guess it doesn't have to be random (unless it is easy to do). It could be that the third eye on the left always has bucky say "Nope, that ain't it." or whatever. If I can get this all worked out, one of the things I'd like to do is have one of the eyes, when pushed, actually make one of Bucky's eyes pop out (attached with a string so it can be wound back up) and have him say "Ouch, you poked my eye out!"
Anyway, any suggestions would be appreciated. I'll make sure I take photos when I start to build it.
Jared
