Make: Volume 90

Its aliiiive! Bring characters to life for Halloween, movie making, and live shows with the mechanical wonders of animatronics!In this issue of Make: follow along as FX designer Jesse Velez builds a custom haunted deer animatronic based on the Evil Dead series. Next, we show you how to make a set of 3D-printed ghosts dance to music using Bottangos free animatronic software. Then add some personality to your next creature build with a pair of simple, lifelike mechatronic eyes, and take it a step further with a mechanism to simulate realistic breathing patterns. Plus, 33+ projects:Use projection mapping to make any building a screen for multimedia shows, at Halloween or anytimeBuild a sunlight sensing plant rotator so your leafy friends always get the best lightLearn to make perfectly aligned vector images from skewed photographsExplore hidden frequencies with an EMF audio amplifierMake a traditional tortilla press for the freshest tacosHack a monster toy with a simple LED circuit for a whimsical desktop status lightSolve 3D design problems using ChatGPTAnd much more!