Fortune Teller Closeup

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 4 of 4, a closeup so you can the jaw synched with speech)

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Entertainment

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

[LUVMEN21]

SERIOSLY,the Salvation Army???

[jasonspeaks]

Found one at Salvation army today. ironic?

[bradsommers]

Because they wouldn't sound scary if they were pitched like PeeWee.

[ffairlane57]

Why do deathly goth voices always have to be so low pitched?