Create an Animatronic — part 1
Last year, I built an animated skeleton with a Raspberry Pi. It was capable of moving its jaws and arm, to talk and process some basic commands like controlling lights. I want to rework it, and use some cool tools that came out this year like openai, assembly.ai … I will cover in a series of articles how to do it.
The definition from Wikipedia says that animatronics refers to mechatronic puppets. They are a modern variant of the automaton and are often used for the portrayal of characters in films and theme park attractions. Before the term “animatronics” became common, they were usually referred to as “robots”. Since then, robots have become known as more practical programmable machines that do not necessarily resemble living creatures.
That’s why I’m not talking animatroncic and not a robot. It’s kind of the “low costs” version with less fontionnality.
The most famous example of animatroncics I have in mind, are the one used in Disney parks and for Jurassic Park movies (not really the kind of parks).
