Purple McSquiggets

Purple McSquiggets is a talented singer and performer who can sooth you with any song you like. He was built using only the Vex Robotics Design System, faux fur and ping pong balls for decoration. He works in a manner similar to other animatronics that are used in the movies. The robot is designed to be driven by one or two puppeteers or it can be programmed to run autonomously to play a repeated routine. McSquiggets is versatile and can be used for a multitude of entertainment purposes. He can move his eyes side to side, his eyebrows up and down, his eyelids up and down and his mouth opens and closes which enables him to display a wide range of emotions for human-like expressions.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Vex
• Robotics
• Animatronics
• Purple
• McSquiggets

[dyldyljkj19]

That's so cool! This was made out of vex, right? How did you get it to play music?

[Tino4488]

It is made entirely of vex parts, except the eyes, fur and nose. The music was just playing from a computer.

[MsELKS1]

Great job Jared and the rest of team Vexellent! Incredible design and puppeteering! Great music too. I am looking forward to seeing more of your animatronic creations.

[KaoruCK]

Congrats CK! I always thought it was nifty we had a robotics team. I'm a bit sad nowadays that I was too lazy to join it while I was there.

[Catman704]

we won the competiton! yay!

[resou1]

turned out better than i thought! take on me was the best

[jdub496]

this is actually pretty funny :P

[TDAWizard]

yeah Vexellent... this is by far the best submission i have seen to date

--The_Wizard