It's aliiiive! Bring characters to life for Halloween, movie making, and live shows with the mechanical wonders of animatronics!

In this issue of Make: follow along as FX designer Jesse Velez builds a custom haunted deer animatronic based on the Evil Dead series. Next, we show you how to make a set of 3D-printed ghosts dance to music using Bottango's free animatronic software. Then add some personality to your next creature build with a pair of simple, lifelike mechatronic eyes, and take it a step further with a mechanism to simulate realistic breathing patterns.

Plus, 33+ projects:

• Use projection mapping to make any building a screen for multimedia shows, at Halloween or anytime
• Build a sunlight sensing plant rotator so your leafy friends always get the best light
• Learn to make perfectly aligned vector images from skewed photographs
• Explore hidden frequencies with an EMF audio amplifier
• Make a traditional tortilla press for the freshest tacos
• Hack a monster toy with a simple LED circuit for a whimsical desktop status light
• Solve 3D design problems using ChatGPT
• And much more!