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So Halloween is upon us again and I really wanted to use the Arduino I had. I went to the halloween store and found a skull with a hinged skull and that was the spark that began this project. I knew that it would probably be easy to have a servo move using the arduino and have it move the skull jaw up and down.
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step 1Gather your materials
you'll need stuff. Lots of stuff. Well...not lots of stuff, but stuff from different places. Here's a sort of breakdown of all the stuff I used and where I got it.Arduin…
step 2Build the sound shield
first thing you need to do is build your sound shield. To save from repeating the wonderful step by step tutorial that lady ada made for her sound shield, I'll just put th…
step 3Wire Up LED's
So here's how the LED's were wired up. They are being fed 5v from the Analog 4 spot on the arduino. What's great about this is that the arduino feeds out 5v, the LED's ea…
step 4Wire Up Motion Sensor and Servo
Here's how the motion sensor and servo are connected up. these diagrams are done this way because I hooked all the wires in the skull up to a small project circuit board a…
step 5All together now!
Here's the whole set up for the wiring in the skull. Looks fairly simple in diagram form I think...
step 6One other thing...
You need to get a voltage reading of what the power of the audio is. What this allows is whenever the volume on the sound gets loud enough, it opens the mouth of the skull…
step 7Put some Wav's on your card!
Grab yourself 4 wav files and format them as the lady ada tells you they need to be formatted. If you want to use my code as is, you'll have to label them as follows on th…
step 8Hook up the arduino
Hook up your arduino to the computer, copy and paste this code, and put it on your arduino----------------------------------------------------------------------------------…
step 9Test it!
I'm sure there's some other little things I've left out. I'll continue to add to this as I remember. This project took me over a month and grew larger and larger as I bou…
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