construction:headsfx:articulated_ears

Articulated ears

- Big Bad Wolf

- Servos:
Animatronic ears can be made from wiring and servos, and manipulated by buttons in the fingers of a glove, like the ones desribed and portrayed on this page (you have to scroll down past the desription of the jaws): http://www.wolftronix.com/head/index.html.

- manual operation:
This German website (http://mitglied.lycos.de/tioh/howto_wolf_d.htm) discusses how to make manually alterable ears.
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The translation is: Cut a 4-6mm diameter rubber (bungee cord or a drive belt) in the length for the outer rim of the ear. Three aluminum pipes - inside diameter suitably the diameter of the rubber - form the base and the tip of the ear. The tip has to be bent with the rubber inside. A hot-glue-stick can be used to stabilize the structure till it's strengthened with a rubber-mat at the back of the ear. The hot-glue-stick can be removed afterwards. A hauling cable goes to the tip of the ear. The ear can be bend by pulling on it (manually, thru a motor or servo).

I don't like hot-glue. Then I have enough time I make the fur removeable.

Newer versions of my tutorials are at http://www.fursuit.de/. There is an english translation too: http://www.fursuit.de/cms/index.php/En:Fursuit_building Tioh

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