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Well after months I finally started working on this project again. I figured since Halloween is only a month and a half away I’d better get it done.
Graveyard skulls have put together some good construction instructions here:
- Motion Servo Assembly
- Jaw Servo Mounting
- Skull Plate Mounting
- Mounting the Eye Kit
- Hooking up the SSC-32
- VSA Programming 101
They also added a new Eye Kit for the skulls which I may add next year.
OK, now on to my first singing test. I found a cool pirate song called “ I Once Wend Down to Kingston Town” by Amateur Hour – Pirate Copy. The great thing about this song is that it is Open Source and covered by the Creative Commons license.
As with most of the 3-Axis skull projects on the net I used Brookshire Software VSA (Visual Show Automation). It costs about $60 which isn’t too bad. It also has a demo version but it doesn’t allow you to save all your hard work. I eventually will write my own program to interface with the Playstation 2 controller but I have slacked off too much this year and will have to do that next year.
Here is a video I posted on YouTube: