Pumpkin Bot (Arduino)

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These are some parts I cooked up for a robotic pumpkin, which I entered into a contest at work. Despite spending almost 9 hours on this, between 14 entries, I only ended up getting two votes out of almost 100. I guess nobody was impressed by a robotic pumpkin. Sad face.

Anyway, this is a robotic pumpkin which runs on Arduino (I ended up using an Arduino Mega 2560 for convenience sake, but I'm sure any Arduino could work). It uses six servos (those popular clear-blue-plastic mini servos with the cross-shaped arms). I ended up running three of the servos directly from the Arduino, and then putting the other three on a 9-volt battery. The eyes have spaces for rgb LEDs, and the mouth has one hole for an Adarfuit electret microphone breakout, and one hole for a photoresistor. Combined with Arduino code, the pumpkin bot can be made to dance when it