DIY Animatronic Eye Mechanism 3D Printed

In this very cheap and quick project, I built a convincing DIY animatronic eye mechanism using CAD software, a 3D printer and Arduino.

Find links to the 3D models and code in the following instructable:

Materials and Components used in this project:
Stiff Wire (I used packaging wire)
Breadboard

My Setup/Recommendations:

[damiancastellini]

great build man, was looking for an animatronic project to try out, thanks for posting!

[ProfessorOzone]

That is without a doubt, the coolest creepy eye following thingy I've ever seen. Thank you for posting. Gonna put this on the Halloween list of things to do! Love it!

[HacksterIo]

Loved this! Adding to our blog now. Would love to see a tutorial up on Hackster, too!

[Lardzor]

You should make a kit for a door camera. Just a little camera to fit inside the eye and app control from a smartphone and you would have a something everyone with too much money would want to buy.

[certified-forklifter]

soo simple but so cool. happy halloween

[Blender-Warehouse]

Do you have some code for automatic blinking with random eye movements with override priority if the joystick is used? So you can leave it autonomous unless you move with your joystick and then it goes back to autonomous. Thanks

[shaniceball]

How would you make the eyes without 3d printing??? 😣

[gerokatseros]

wow !!! how natural it moves ... and how easy it looks to make !!! but how do i draw it so well ???? :)

[SheWolf_ArtGr]

This is a bit of an old video of yours but I wanted to say a huge thank you for this mechanism. It helped me a lot with my final major project as a 3rd year model maker. I wanted to tag and credit your instagram since I'm sharing progress of said project on my main platforms ( as I made a five nights at freddy's animatronic mask). But I don't see any accounts with your name, I assumed you don't have an instagram so I've credited your youtube channel :) Keep creating, your work is very interesting, helpful and inspiring.

[williammontenegrochamorro]

Me gustan éstos mecanismo de ojos pero mándemen a decir ¿como compro? soy de Colombia. Gracias.

[singaporememorylane]

I need a little help here. As a specific sequence for such a complex movement is very hard to replicate through codes, can we record it or perhaps you can guide me to a possible code for my sequence? Thanks!

[Fraddy_]

Great video, but can the joystick be used without it being connected?

[kentharris]

Printing it as we speak! Will show you the final result in Instructables! 😊 Where do you get the part that goes in the back of the eye?

[Annimations]

Would it be possible to tweak this for a manual puppeteer version using cables?

[_vitonio]

can you make a arduion code controller for wireless dualshock 3?. i want to control this mechatronic eye using wireless controller.

[maxhouseman]

Great project, but unfortunately poor printing (some parts)

[waelasal]

Nice could you tell me please exactly how can I conect the coltroler with servo motors?

[Scenejellybean]

What is a good quick way to learn programming for animatronics

[tinydraw]

I don't really understand how you made the eye following the joystick

[keith]

Hi, I have assembled the eye but never used Arduino or the software, I got joystick which has 5 pins (GND, +5V, VRx, VRy & SW), in your diagram you show two separate items for controlling x and y of the eye, how would I connect these to the breadboard/Arduino?