From Raspberry Pi Book of Making 2027, this seasonal build uses a Raspberry Pi Pico and some Halloween magic. Animate a Halloween skeleton — Raspberry Pi Book of Making 2027. Not since the seminal 1993 film Hocus Pocus has there been a more iconic book than Raspberry Pi Book of Making 2027, and we thought it timely to share this project from its pages, which are packed with our favourite maker projects from the past year.
You can get your copy at an introductory price of £9.99, but for now, let’s animate a Halloween skeleton with a $4 Raspberry Pi Pico. As October draws close, the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead grows thin, allowing spirits to cross. At least, that’s what watching too many horror/comedy films has taught us.
Since the real world is rarely as interesting as Hollywood depicts, we’re not going to rely on the dead rising up, and give Halloween a helping hand by creating our own animated skeleton. You can build your own by following along, or adapt the techniques to animate whatever spooky (or not spooky) decorations you like. Our build starts with a 90cm glow-in-the-dark skeleton that we purchased from AliExpress.
The key part of this build relies on it being a ‘2D’ skeleton where all the joints move in the same plane.
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