Poppy Playtime is an fascinating horror online game — or moderately, an episodic sequence of video games — that places gamers into the eerie toy manufacturing facility of fictional firm Playtime Co., the place they discover that the corporate’s characters are alive and fairly aggressive. A giant a part of the sport’s attraction is the creepy character design, with the eponymous Poppy being only one instance. However they’re all scary, as Jaimie and Jay of Depraved Makers proved after they constructed this life-sized CatNap animatronic.

The Depraved Makers aren’t strangers to this sport, as they beforehand constructed an eight-foot-tall Huggy Wuggy. Their CatNap animatronic isn’t fairly as tall, however it’s nonetheless big. And it’s a devoted recreation of the monster seen in-game. It may possibly transfer its head side-to-side, and its physique type of sways like an actual, respiratory creature’s would. It even breathes glowing crimson fog to characterize the in-game sleeping gasoline formulated for youngsters.

As standard, that overwhelming majority of the work right here went into establishing the animatronic’s skeleton, physique, and head. It’s a masterful mishmash of PVC pipe, wire, foam, clay, and material. However the true magic comes from the motion, which is feasible because of the usage of an Arduino UNO Rev3. That controls the torso’s wiper motor through a relay, the servo motor that strikes the top, the LEDs for the eyes and smoke, and the smoke machine.

To simplify the animations, the Depraved Makers turned to Bottango software program. That’s free and made particularly for controlling animatronics. It makes programming and importing animations simple, so the Depraved Makers can alter CatNap’s conduct every time they need.

The result’s simply as terrifying as it’s spectacular.