If you’ve ever played with linux and managed to get x11 up and running you’ll very likely have been presented with, or soon found a little app called xeyes. Quite simply it’s two eyballs that follow the mouse pointer as you move it around the desktop.
Well Hunz wanted to move them into the real world….
“The eyes are made from large pizza boxes cardboard and rolled by RC-servos that are controlled by an ATTiny2313 that’s connected to the PC using the low-speed software usb stack.”
The intriguing and novel part of the hack is that he’s using a video filter plugin for mplayer to do the processing rather than building a custom app.

It’s a little short on details at the mo, but he says he will post more details.

Real Life Xeyes

Via Hackaday

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