Build your own animatronic hand using cardboard, straws, some cord, and rubber bands. Pull the cords to actuator fingers -- or even better, let some servo motors do it for you!

CRICKIT is the perfect platform for building your animatronics projects -- it can take commands from your Circuit Playground Express and then power your servos. You can even add lights and sound later if you like.

Parts

1 x Circuit Playground Express
Round, Awesome Microcontroller Board
4 x Standard servo
TowerPro SG-5010
1 x Male DC Power adapter
2.1mm plug to screw terminal block

Materials & Supplies

In addition to the parts above, you'll need:

  • Corrugated cardboard from a shipping box or two
  • Drinking straws
  • Cord, yarn, or string
  • Rubber bands

Tools

  • Hobby knife or scissors
  • Hot melt glue gun and hot melt glue sticks

This guide was first published on May 23, 2018. It was last updated on May 23, 2018.

This page (Overview) was last updated on May 16, 2018.

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