Imagine a robot that move its eyes when the user enters in the workplace, move his finger or the head. A fully interactive robotic head is possible with the Arduino microcontroller perfect embedded into a DIY project. Even it is not a complete animatronic head because the head is missing and the electronic eyes can only look left or right, this project can be used as an inspiration to develop new versions and improve its features.
This project has very low costs and is flexible in design enough to add or change the materials such as Ping Pong balls or the platform made of balsa wood that host the eyes.
The engineer that works to build these two animatronic eyes has big plans to add new features such as eyelids that blink. But till then, let’s concentrate on the actual version of the animatronic eyes.
Each eye is engineered to move independently, and that allows the eyes to follow the movements of the user. The main components of this project are four micro servos interfaced with a 16-channels servo shield. The shield is interfaced through I2C interface with Arduino microcontroller.
In this video can be seen the robot eyes in action
The instructions are provided by Max Maxfield via this post.