I brought the pieces of crybot and actually got the sensor sensing with Gideon’s help- exciting moment! Also made a sound throwie that I’d like to customize a bit more before releasing as an instructable. 

There may or may not have been some mischief following said event that involved throwies. Only the closing barista at Starbucks in Davis can tell for sure.

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A while ago I was the self-appointed minion to Jimmie Rodgers’ creepy cave crab project for Willoughby & Baltic’s Halloween show at the Charles River Museum of Industry. as you can see from this movie the crabs are indeed creepy and crabby and liked the dark. 

[A single hex schmitt trigger inverter IC to generate the sound, 2 RGB color change LEDs to generate the light and 8 photo resistors to sense the light all held together semi-neatly with friendly plastic and silver paint] 

Here’s the link!

What you see here is a half-hacked mini aquarium water pump ‘clamped’ to my desk with duck tape and its suction feet helpless to the impending battle bt. Dremel and weird green resin/plastic casing.

What you do not see is my look of utter disgust and defeat while I came to grips with the fact that copious amounts of toxic dust in my lungs and an hour of cutting did not result in a satisfying cracking open of it’s contents, just sparks/smoke/unhackable motor.

….aghah#$%&^@*)!!!!!