Sticky Sweet Animatronic Peep Show

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With Easter quickly approaching, [Kyle] decided to finally build a project that is as tasty as it is wrong.

Behold, the Animatronic “Peep” show! Using nearly a dozen marshmallow Peeps, he constructed a stage for his “performers” and a seating area for their “clients”. The structure was built mostly from balsa wood and foamboard, featuring a retractable curtain, stage lighting, and music.

Once triggered, the embedded Arduino gets to work animating the stage lights and blaring “Cherry Pie” while the sugar-coated onlookers await their entertainment. The curtain is drawn back and a trio of winged dancers emerge one by one, ready to entertain the crowd.  The onlookers even offer up dollar bills to the dancers via a servo-mounted arm.

The project uses a total of 10 servos driven by the Arduino, along with an audio decoder chip to provide the proper ambiance for the marshmallow debauchery. [Kyle] says that he put together about 650 lines of code to get the whole thing running, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to download it at the moment – hopefully we’ll see something posted soon.

It might not be high-brow, but it sure beats blowing up old, stale Peeps in the microwave!

Stick around for a trio of videos demonstrating the Peep show as well as revealing some of the stage’s inner workings.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrLFgKnDPMA&w=470]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4nd9pJFwE8&w=470]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwP9dqq-j8Q&w=470]

14 thoughts on “Sticky Sweet Animatronic Peep Show

  1. “[Kyle] says that he put together about 650 lines of code to get the whole thing running, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to download it at the moment – hopefully we’ll see something posted soon.”

    Because the world needs more than one of these things.

  2. Too bad, I won’t click thru. Sony can drink and eat out of the toilet. Support live and local music.
    Dirty birds. OK but I like eggsplosions!
    Beware of the egg laying rabbit.

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