Dress him up for holidays and have a memorable singing decoration

Have a Fun prop to display

Play pranks and jokes

Learn about puppetry and gain new skills

Hook up to Karaoke machine for added singing fun

Set him up to play with your music collection

Hello Instructables readers! I'd like you to meet my buddy Beaker-bot. As you probably already know, Beaker is the Lab Assistant at Muppet Labs and hapless victim of numerous lab accidents. Well, I set out to create a Muppet calibur style Beaker out of stuff that I had lying around in my basement. The result is a example of an animatronic character that can be created out of some old materials and holiday decorations.Well, the Beaker-bot is a animatronic puppet that will "sing" to the sound that I play through him. Meaning, If I hook up an iPod or other music playing device, he will lip-sync his mouth to the music or words. He is also a fully functional puppet with Beaker style head and hand control. He also has a electric button to control his animatronic mouth, and for fans of more classical puppetry, Beaker-bot does have a classic rod to control his mouth as well.Beaker-bot, for me is both an excellent puppet for someone like me who does not have good enough puppetry voice skills to talk on my own. I also can have him on display, and he can talk and sing without a puppeteer, which is one of the major advantages of animatronics. I plan on having him on display during holidays such as Christmas.I better mention right here that this is my first attempt at anything puppet or animatronic related. I am very happy with the results for my first try. I have no clue what the professionals use in their methods, and I am pretty sure that the methods I use are not the same as what is done professionally. That being said, the methods I used turned out very well for my needs.Here is a demonstration on Beaker-bot's automatic speaking and singing abilities:I had a demo of Beaker singing some songs here, but I decided to move it to the last page as a finale. Feel free to cruise to the last step to see Beaker singing! I also have a demonstration of using Beaker-bot for traditional puppetry. Beaker has full head rotation and can duck his head as well.Here are a few ideas of what to do with the Beaker-bot: