Spooky Skull

This is an exciting project that focuses on robotics and specifically on the field of gesture control. This is where the movement or gesture of a human being causes a robot to act in a specific way.

Gesture control lies at the heart of human/robot interaction, an important area of study in this field being the development of robotic prosthetic limbs. Pupils study the essential components of robotics including programming, electronics and design.

Each pupil takes as their starting point a model of an anatomically correct skull. They then install LED strips in the eye sockets and gesture control sensors so the LED ‘eyes’ react to human movement. Pupils will then learn how to program in Arduino C so they can code an ESP8266 microprocessor to control the ‘eyes’ and sensors of the Spooky Skull.