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]
Yay, Sony Music Entertainment is restricting embeds. So, YouTube only.
Oh, for God’s sake.
lol so funny
Seems like a lot of effort to put if for…um… this… I mean, what do you do with it now?
Pretty funny though, and looks like he did a good job.
I think this is one of the best hacks i’ve seen yet! you apparently had too much time on your hands tho.
Good job
Absolutely nothing wrong with a good old fashioned peep show. The performers get paid, the clients receive entertainment. Everybody wins.
“[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.
Yup, pure awesome. Thumbs up!
SME hates Poland, so no video for me.
Eat shit Sony!
Once again…
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.
@Branno
Maybe he will sell it on HAD classifieds. A guy can hope…
It is a pretty funny idea though. Very creative and nicely choreographed.
Stupid Sony Music… here’s an alternate link:
http://www.facebook.com/v/604167790771
Love it!
And it takes true artistic genius to wordlessly represent a marshmallow peep as bisexual/bicurious.