{"id":36207,"date":"2012-04-07T05:37:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T12:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/?p=36207"},"modified":"2018-03-26T17:14:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T00:14:31","slug":"tj-the-animatronic-puppet-on-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/design-ideas\/tj-the-animatronic-puppet-on-kickstarter\/","title":{"rendered":"TJ* the animatronic puppet on Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An Arduino-controlled puppet with moving eyes and mouth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"375px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/jeffkessler\/tj-an-animatronic-puppet\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"500px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Kessler originally made TJ* to use in a short movie he was making before deciding to develop it for the public. TJ* is an animatronic puppet head with eyes the move up, down, left, and right as well as a moving mouth.<\/p>\n<p>It is intended as both a toy for children that they can continue to improve as they grow up and as a development platform for makers and artists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ponoko-content-box\">\n<h2 class=\"ponoko-content-box-title\">How To Start A Kickstarter<\/h2>\n<p class=\"ponoko-content-box-body\">Everything you need to know about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/business-tips\/how-to-start-a-kickstarter\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to start a Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/business-tips\/how-to-start-a-kickstarter\/\" class=\"ponoko-content-box-cta\" target=\"_blank\">See the ultimate guide here<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The complete system is still available for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/jeffkessler\/tj-an-animatronic-puppet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pre-order on Kickstarter<\/a> for $120, but if already have an Arduino you can pre-order just the head and servo motors for $50.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tj01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36208\" title=\"tj01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tj01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tj01.jpg 818w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tj01-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tj01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tj01-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tj02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36209\" title=\"tj02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tj02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tj02.jpg 818w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tj02-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tj02-768x547.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/cat\/16\/view\/20260\/tj-animatronic-puppet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">designboom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An Arduino-controlled puppet with moving eyes and mouth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Kessler originally made TJ* to use in a short movie he was making before deciding to develop it for the public. TJ* is an animatronic puppet head with eyes the move up, down, left, and right as well as a moving mouth.<\/p>\n<p>It is intended as both a toy for children that they can continue to improve as they grow up and as a development platform for makers and artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5796],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-ideas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TJ* the animatronic puppet on Kickstarter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/design-ideas\/tj-the-animatronic-puppet-on-kickstarter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TJ* the animatronic puppet on Kickstarter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An Arduino-controlled puppet with moving eyes and mouth. 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