It's aliiiive! Bring characters to life for Halloween, movie making, and live shows with the mechanical wonders of animatronics! In this issue of Make: follow along as FX designer Jesse Velez builds a custom haunted deer animatronic based on the Evil Dead series. Next, we show you how to make a set of 3D-printed ghosts dance to music using Bottango's free animatronic software. Then add some personality to your next creature build with a pair of simple, lifelike mechatronic eyes, and take it a step further with a mechanism to simulate realistic breathing patterns. Plus, 33+ projects

Use projection mapping to make any building a screen for multimedia shows, at Halloween or anytime
Build a sunlight sensing plant rotator so your leafy friends always get the best light
Learn to make perfectly aligned vector images from skewed photographs
Explore hidden frequencies with an EMF audio amplifier
Make a traditional tortilla press for the freshest tacos
Hack a monster toy with a simple LED circuit for a whimsical desktop status light
Solve 3D design problems using ChatGPT
And much more!