A Collection Of Hands To Inspire Your Halloween Animatronics

Jump scares are a lot of fun, but if you want to hold the attention of all those trick-or-treaters we’d suggest a creepy prop. One of the best choices in that category is a ghoulishly lifelike hand. You can draw some inspiration from this roundup of robot hands which Adafruit put together.

We’ve chosen four examples for the image above but there are more to be had than just these. In the upper left there is a laser-cut acrylic hand that actually features some force sensitive resistors on the fingertips to help implement some haptic feedback. This project was inspired by the hand seen in the lower right which uses flex sensors on a glove to control the bot’s movement. If you’re looking for something more realistic the 3D printed parts on the lower left are the best bet. But if you’re looking to put something together by Halloween night the offering in the upper right is the way to go. It’s hacked together using cardboard templates to cut out plastic parts and using polymorph to form joints and brackets.

3 thoughts on “A Collection Of Hands To Inspire Your Halloween Animatronics

  1. hey these halloween projects really look cool! i plan to build a pumkin with effects with my daughter tomorrow. i just got the new Arduino Starter kit which contains a large set of sensors and actuators, quite a cool and stylish beginners box

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