Create your Squid Game doll
Imagine that you pass in front of a house where the head of a mannequin is placed that, suddenly, begins to turn head to follow you with the “look” wherever you move. Creepy right? Well now stop imagining it, because with a Raspberry Pi and some other additional element you can make your own.
Of course, beyond being an attractive project for Halloween, this could also be quite an interesting one if, now that the Squid Game series is so fashionable, you want to create your own replica of the doll you are wearing. in the first episode of the series. Yes, the one that with its eyes detected who was moving to eliminate it from the game.
With it and as it is right now, you will only be able to turn the doll’s head, but if you are looking for some other tutorial and you have both desire and time to complicate yourself a little more, you could even replicate the eye movement.
Nevertheless, to create this project what you need it is:
- Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi 3
- A mannequin head or create a replica through a 3D printer of the doll of The Squid Game. It is important that it is a structure as light as possible or you will have to add a more powerful servo motor
- Raspberry Pi compatible motor
- Raspberry Pi camera module
Ready, with these materials the construction and manufacturing process is quite simple if you have experience in these matters. Otherwise and not having knowledge about how to install the different packages that will allow you to control what the Raspberry Pi camera module sees to play with motion detection and the subsequent tracking of objects and people when they enter the field of vision, you can follow the tutorial posted here.
The Squid Game doll in 3D file
As we told you before, you can take advantage of this Raspberry Pi project to create your own doll from The Squid Game. Of course, you will need to have a way to create your own doll and for that there is this file that you can use as a base and then print it completely or only the part that interests you, the head.
Be that as it may, because here it will depend on what you want to achieve, you will have the option of doing it and the best thing is that the 3d model It is a file that you can download for free from this page. Once you paint it, you make it beautiful and that’s it.
Finally, if you want to take advantage of the project for more things, you can also make use of skins. Again, here is a 3D printable mask of the Squid Game doll. So the option of combining a mannequin head with different masks can be attractive.
