The copyright for Steamboat Willie famously expired at the start of this yr. Steamboat Willie was the primary look Mickey Mouse, so this copyright expiration is a giant deal for Disney. Anybody will be capable of use the character for the primary time in historical past, as Mickey Mouse is now within the public area. To have fun this momentous event, Jaimie and Jay of the Depraved Makers YouTube channel constructed this terrifying FNAF-style Mickey Mouse animatronic.

A couple of months in the past, Depraved Makers constructed a 5 Nights at Freddy’s Springtrap animatronic and the outcomes had been superb. For this venture, they took a lot of those self same classes, methods, and stylistic selections and utilized them to Mickey.

This can be a full, life-saved head that may transfer, open and shut its jaw, and direct its scary glowing gaze. The overwhelming majority of the top’s construction is a 3D-printed shell (modeled by BeardlessProps) with a ridiculous quantity of very good texturing, portray, and weathering. The ears, for instance, have a coating of darkish fiber that provides a felt-like look. The aesthetic does a unbelievable job of creating this appear like an previous and crushed animatronic from a theme park.

The motion is all actuated by interest servo motors managed by an Arduino UNO R4 board. Depraved Makers added a USB host protect, which allow them to join a PlayStation 4 controller. The Arduino reads the stick positions and button presses from the PS4 controller and adjusts the servo motors accordingly. That enables for good natural management when puppeteering.

This video ends with the animatronic dying. However from what we noticed earlier than that, it was very a lot successful. The Depraved Makers plan to restore the top and can publish a video with updates, so you’ll want to subscribe to their channel.