Digital Puppetry: What is a Waldo and Why Do I Need One?

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I want to control my animatronic characters as efficiently as possible and while it would be nice to use 3D animation software or other platforms to create custom animations, that's still waaaay too tedious, so today I'm building a remote manipulator, commonly known as a Waldo after an invention from a 1942 short story by Robert Heinlein. This is specifically designed to help me animate my build of Wheatley from Portal 2, but it's a general purpose device that I can use to bring other characters like my build of GLaDOS, Claptrap, Rosie the Robot, or GIR back to life.

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