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This instructable will walk you through how to build a robotic plush lizard This mechatronic animal, dubbed Leopold the 17th (he went through 17 it...
To make Leopold (or a close relative) you will need: 2 yards of the top body fabric (we used a polar fleece) 3 yards of lining fabric 2 yards of...
Quick Sewing Tips and Terminology: Wrong sides - the sides that you want on the inside of the plush toy Right sides - the sides that you want on t...
We wanted Leopold to have a flexible spine in order to have the floppy nature of a plush toy when picked up. Don't worry, this step is surprisingly m...
Each part of this step will need to be repeated 4 times, once for each leg Cut out leg and bracket pieces The bracket and leg linkage files from ...
Attach a large servo to the spine with the hinges on the bottom using a high gauge wire. Just as a suggestion, we drilled holes through the last/firs...
The eyes each include a light sensor in the pupil. Simply find sufficiently large but high gage wire and then solder a line for power onto the longer ...
Cut out circles of white felt and then smaller circles out of black felt. You may either sew or glue on the pieces with the white as the outer part o...
Find some cardboard and create a small container for the Arduino. While it can have an open top, we created a slightly more specialized holder, includ...
Choose a musical greeting card and carefully open the back pouch that contains the speaker and chip. Just so you know, you want to be careful to not ...
Leopold comes with a really nice diagram for his wiring. No, really, we made a really nice diagram for you (see svg file below or main image). Anyway,...
Code for Leopold is available at https://gist.github.com/2603758. If you followed the wiring guidelines in the previous step, this should work automat...
This is the step that can make or break everything. Or just cause things to be a pain to fix. The best way that we found to do this was by bending t...
Make sure he can dance before continuing on. It is much easier to troubleshoot at this point than it will be after the next step.
Insert stuffing into the top slip of the skin through the open hole in the head piece. Then, sew that hole shut to complete the mouth. Next, cut a ton...
So, you might have noticed that there are a few extra unused servos in our images. Well dear readers, we hope that someday Leopold might not just danc...
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