How to Make a Picture with Creepy Eyes That Follow You Around

Do you feel like you're being watched? Unless you're visiting the home of Instructables member jgbradley1, then you probably are.

It's a classic horror trope in movies and television: as you move through a spooky room, the eyes of a picture seem to follow you around. jgbradley1 made that real with a Kinect sensor input and a poster of the cover of Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #50. He painted wood balls to serve as eyeballs and placed them on rotary servo motors. You can find his circuit diagram and code here.

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Or you could save yourself a lot of time and just cut a pong pong ball in half, placing the flat end against the hole you cut and placing pupils directly in the middle of the Ping pong ball. The perspective will make it feel like the eyes are following you everywhere, like the paintings in "The Haunted Mansion".

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curious link I ran across while reviewing the above link

http://makeanimatronics.com/

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Can't actually do it in a hunted house - the motor noise will give it away

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