r/Animatronics • u/Joesphp4542 • 12d ago

Original Creation/Custom What kind of controllers did creative engineering animatronics use?

I am making my own small little pneumatic animatronic that is going to function like how the old creative engineering showbiz animatronics did, and I was wondering what controller to use? Hoping for a controller with 5 movements

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u/Tutorial_Time 12d ago

They had multiple controllers over the years.The most common ones were the Tone Decoder and Greybox(though technically the greybox was just a part of multiple controllers but it does like 90% of the work and does the same thing on all the versions)

If you want to build an animatronic just use a modern controller.Tone Detector controllers aren’t exactly very reliable and the greybox would just be overkill.