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The AI talked me into putting radar in my Halloween skull, and now it switches my workshop lights on

A second maker in the same thread built his own motion sensing skull from a Meshy.ai model. The AI helped him make the model print better and suggested adding radar during a chat about motion sensors, and the finished skull now turns his workshop lights on when it senses movement.

How it works

  1. Take a skull model from Meshy.ai
  2. Use the AI to make it print better
  3. Talk through motion sensors, and take the radar idea
  4. Build two board versions
  5. First try at loading graphics into flash memory fails
  6. Add an SD card
  7. Skull now turns workshop lights on when it detects motion

Why it’s worth knowing

The radar was not his plan. The AI suggested it mid conversation, and he built the prop around the suggestion.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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