How-To: Build a USB-Controlled “Push Puppet”

Back in July, we brought you news of the Availabot, a concept project for a physical avatar, a puppet, that was upright when you were online (in IM) and limp when you weren’t. Belgian hardware hacker Pierre-Philippe Coupard has put together a Linux-controlled IM “push-puppet” of his own, and shows you how he did it.