Raspberry Pi brings GitHub’s Octocat to life, with moving tentacles

Anyone who’s been to GitHub before has no doubt come across the unforgettable Octocat mascot. Its pointy ears and friendly smile accompany a wide library of code shared by thousands of people over the years. Today we’ve got an adorable Raspberry Pi project to share created by the Infineon Team who’s using a Pi to bring the GitHub Octocat mascot to life.

The team is using pneumatics to make silicone tentacles flap on command. The Pi is able to address each tentacle using Infineon’s new DC Motor Control HAT.

The head for Octocat was 3D printed using an FDM printer and finished by hand with paint. The tentacles, however, are another story. To create these, the team designed and printed a couple of molds and used silicone to form them. Each tentacle is controlled using pneumatic valves connected to the Infineon DC Motor Control HAT.

This project hits multiple maker technologies: Raspberry Pi, pneumatics, GitHub.

See more on the Hackster.io project page and on Tom’s Hardware. Via X.


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