Amazon Alexa Skull

Amazon Echo is great for simple tasks, but one man has transformed it into “Yorick”, something worthy of a haunted house or horror movie. That’s right, Mike McGurrin has managed to make Alexa talk in sync with a skull prop, and it’s powered by Raspberry Pi running AlexaPi software. “I like to decorate for Halloween, including various talking skeletons that I’ve set up over the years. For Christmas 2015, my wife gave me a great 3 axis talking skull with moving eyes so I could upgrade one of the skeletons from just a moving jaw skull. Then a friend suggested that there had to be other applications for the rest of the year. This got me thinking, and when I saw the Alexa Billy Bass I knew what I had to do, and the Yorick project was born. I’m pretty happy with the result,” said McGurrin. Continue reading for another video, pictures and information.

Talking Alexa Skull

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