How To: Easy Blinking Animatronic Eye

Here's a video on how I made Corvus' eye(s). The eye I made in this video was for a version of Corvus--one with a light up eye--that I never finished. Instead, I used the mechanism I made here to give him a separate, functioning eyelid (rather than the painted on one I used in the first version and in this video). Then, I was able to tape the eye to a small servo beneath it to make it turn left and right.

If you want to make two eyes, you can use this exact same method! Just put two eyes on the dowel side by side instead of one.

Materials:
-Ping Pong Ball
-Paint, Gloss
-Thin Dowel
-Popsicle Sticks (to hold up eye)
-Small Rubber Bands (I used the ones left over from when I had braces. Those are super handy for small puppets and projects like this!)
-Jewelry Wire
-Servo
-and you'll need to have a drill!

Comment below if you have any questions!

More Tutorials!
Skeletons and Control Box: youtube.com/watch?v=Jk3ZsyrTU4M

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