Fortune Teller part 1

This is a coin-operated, animatronic fortune teller a friend and I made in his basement workshop out of a medical skeleton, a CD player, and a few circuit boards. It's called Fortunes From Beyond. It has 17 different 60-second fortunes, 3 15-second 'attract mode' fortunes, and a diagnostic track you can have play at power-up. There is a fog machine that fills up his casket with smoke after each fortune, and a baseball card dispenser just below that gives you a fortune card. My friend came up with the idea, built the cabinet, and engineered the animatronics, and I did the custom boards, the programming, the speech, and puppeteered the fortunes. (sample fortune 1 of 4)

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Entertainment

Tags:

• fortune
• amusement
• skeleton
• animatronic
• coin-op
• munves
• zoltar
• zoltan
• genco
• grandmother
• predictions
• williams
• seeburg

[LUVMEN21]

Good job!!!putting that together its looks as convincing as the commercal models!!!

[hawpond]

Thanks! That was the idea....the commercial ones these days look kind of lame in my opinion.

[animatronicsworld]

This is much better than most of the "commercial" models. Zoltar would be shaking in his boots, that is if he had as many movements as this guy. Did this ever get placed in a location, and if so, did you make any money with it?

[hawpond]

We knew a guy who owned an antique store and put it in their for a few weeks. When we checked on it, it was out of fog juice and out of cards, but stuffed full of quarters.

[thejarvinator]

at the start he bangs his arm on the side of the box! lol

[hawpond]

Yeah, the animatronic signal is carried as an audio signal at one point in the system, and there is a little static in the line....so he gets the jitters. Sometimes while we were calibrating him, he would start flailing around like he was having a seizure, and we though he was going to smash his arm through the glass.

[aayala1100]

He farted at the end

[TheQuindecillion]

Now that is fantastic! A real work of art.

[jaheath]

Where did you find the card dispenser for the fortune? I have been searching for one, but can't seem to find any!

[janityy]

Good Job. Ill have to research how to make one. Umm this is nicer than ones from early 1900s that sell for like ten thousand on eBay. Incredible. I will be making one

[PaleSecrecy]

this is amazing. Gives me the creeps though lol

[djfreebey]

nice job how u make as i planing makeing a coin-operated one to

[NekoNatsume]

Lovely! Here have all my coins :D!!

[SithEmperor800]

wait so thats a real human's skeleton that was dedicated to science O_o

[angelbatal]

wow nice may tell my life soon???

[hypstarr]

This is incredible. I am so envious of people who have the skills and knowledge to do this kind of stuff. The head movement and mouth syncronization is truly impressive. Care to share your secrets?