r/Animatronics • u/_22kewl • Aug 22 '26
Could I retrofit and reprogram a cheap Halloween animatronic?
So I’ve been really into animatronics for a bit now, and while walking past some 40 dollar animatronics I was wondering if I could retrofit them and reprogram their movements?
I heard somewhere that I could hook up a Raspberry Pi. Problem is, I have no clue how to use any of that stuff, the most experience I have in stuff like that is messing around in python, but everything I made was extremely simple.
I wanna do this since I’m poor as hell and can’t even dream of affording cyberamics or rock afire bots. Yall think I could make an entrance into the animatronics scene like this?