A friend of mine had one goal in mind: get the same mouth animations as the ones in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFta3Ao9E9I.Additionally, she had to have it cycling through stored mouths at specific moments, for the transitions to be synchronized with an ongoing choregraphy & music being played.The current state of the project offers exactly that:- stored mouths generated from a script ran within an Adobe Illustrator document- a single button press to cycle through set mouths at set moments or stop & reset- 2 basic color modes: same color for all mouths ( can be adjusted in real time ), or using the colors of each teeth from the original illustrator layersThe projet now needs a proper casing & 3d printed diffusers for the leds to be more perceived as teeth through cutoutsA second "hand-made flexible pcb" was done ( this time, with kapton under the t
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Peeling off the bottom-up cutted copper tape ( 2nd version of the traces )
Everything went quite well, but I scratched the kapton in some places ( staying focused on precise work for some hours is quite hard sometimes ) - also, there are missing trace(s) ( I think one or two little ones ) that I'd either re-cut & place manually or simply replace with a tiny wire ;p