DIY Cardboard Head With Face Tracking

Build a minimal and simple robot head with cardboard and basic electronics.

With the use of two servo motors we can create a basic cardboard robot head with two degrees of freedom:

1. turning head sideways – controlled by face yaw
2. mouth openning

Do not forget to add some personalization and individual character to your cardboard robot head!

Supplies

1. Micro Servo Motors 180deg
2. Programmable microcontrolles such as BBC Micro:Bit or Arduino
3. Nuts and bolts
4. Cardboard

Step 1: Build the Robot

You can find building manual in the video below.

How to read robot plans:

1. BLACK LINES – cut this line first
2. RED LINES – detailed shapes cut after the black lines
3. BLUE DASHED LINES – bending lines traced with scissors

Step 2: Face Tracking

To control this robot you can use our Face Tracking APP

This basic robot head has two degrees of freedom (two movement types controlled by two motors)

1. head rotation left and right
2. mouth openness

These movements can be mapped to corresponding parameters in Face Tracking App – face YAW (left/right) and MOUTH OPENNESS

What next?

1. This robot head design has a controller board outside of the model so you can use any other controller for it such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc.
2. If you want to use Arduino with HM-10 or MLT-BT05 lbuetooth 4.0 module you can control it the Arduino version of Face Tracking App more info about it and Arduino code can be found here