Animatronic Rat

Step 7 Set him up

It's ready to go. Put some kind of decorations around it so it fits in and maybe hides the bottom box some. I glued a cereal and soda box on the outside of my base so it would fit in with trash and stuck him on the top of a trashcan. Last year he was a trash rat but this year he is going to be a gangster rat.

You can move it around and follow people, talk to them while actuating the mouth, get people to look closer at it and interact with it then wham you squirt them. I have never had so much fun, you can control it completely and even keep squirting people as they try to move out of the way. My only suggestion is to not squirt the very young as they tend to cry and their mothers tend to want to beat you.

I did try to part many a young kid from their candy by offering to trade some trash for it but I couldn't get any takers.

Next year I plan to make the mouth servo actuated by audio input like I have seen on some skulls on the net that way I don't have to manually manipulate the mouth to match what I am saying. Or maybe have a script that animates him unattended.

This was a lot of fun to make and more fun to play with.

Comments

[siddhanth]

LOL DUDE that video is hilarious.. CANDY!!! LOL... nice project.. will definately get my hands on this..