Project Overview

Our goal for this is to create an animatronic figure for a haunted house that will take place in October of 2018 for local elementary school children. The requirements for this design was that it needed to use mechanical and electrical design. Our project will be made using Arduino software and basic motors and sensors. The design is a "haunted painting" in which it appears to be a regular painting on the wall until individuals come closer, and then the subject will pop out and scare the watchers. We are going to use a stuffed teddy bear purchased and then taken apart and replaced with a mechanical wood frame with motors to allow both forward and backward movement along with movement of the arms. The frame of our design will be wood and we will use artistic skills to craft the background of the painting. This idea can be seen in the rough sketches attached below.