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Try searching "arm rods" in the forum Kermie, this has been discussed many times and there's been tons of great discussions about it.

I found another digital Muppet project, from the same university - this one is a virtual reality version of the Muppet Show. Check it out - http://puppetvision.blogspot.com/2005/11/more-digital-muppets.html

I didn't do it, it was created by students at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center.

If you buy John Kennedy's Puppet Mania book (it's about $10 US I think) it has instructions for a neat little kangaroo puppet with rods like that.

Just posted this on my blog and thought a lot of you might dig it, a digitally puppeteered re-creation of "Mahna Mahna". It's crude, but neat. http://puppetvision.blogspot.com/2005/11/digital-mahna-mahna.html

Some cool Skeksis puppet replicas, not sure if these are licensed or not. http://www.kropserkel.com/skeksis.htm

Someone should start an "MC Puppet Meet-Up" thread and starting planning an East Coast/West Coast thing for 2006.

Yeah, but as animatronics go $300-400 is actually a pretty good price. Just parts alone you're probably looking at a minimum $200-300 for the components that go in to a kit like that with the servos, control board, R/C controller, eyes and parts. And then there's the labour and a profit margin...

I saw this today while doing some research and wanted to share...it's an off-the-shelf animatronic eye kit. It can provide up, down, right, left eye movement as well as blinks. Could easily be tied in to a standard 3 channel radio controller and used in a puppet...

This is pretty neat so far, we've got a long way to go but so far there are over 70 people on the map from around the world. Check it out - http://www.frappr.com/puppeteers And if you haven't added yourself to the map, what are you waiting for? :)

If I can get involved in some stuff in Manhattan from Canada (or Mexico!) you can do it from Brooklyn Shtick. I would love to live that close to Manhattan, it would make life sooo much easier!

Are you kidding Shtick? There's tons of stuff in New York, it's like the puppetry capital of the world!!

Thanks. If anyone belongs to local puppet guilds, church groups, etc. especially outside of the U.S. and Canada please feel free to pass along this information so we can build the most comprehensive map possible. If you've got a blog or website and you want to help spread the word you can link...

Very nice!

I am attempting to build a map of puppeteers and puppet builders around the world using Frapper so if you're a puppeteer or builder (and if you're reading this you probably are) please click here and take a moment to add your name, location and three lines indicating: - Type of work (puppeteer...

Sean Johnson has the last part of his arm rod tutorial online - http://swazzle.com/blogs/2005/11/arm-rods-part-four.html Be sure to check all of the links to his blog I've posted in this thread in case you have been asking questions about arm rods. I highly recommend reading Sean's blog...

There's a similar yellow one too. I found it in a small town discount store, it looked several years old. Does anyone know if there were others in the series?

I've posted two more Sheka and Teka ads - http://puppetvision.blogspot.com/2005/11/more-sheka-teka.html

Try Introduction to Video Puppetry: Manipulation for the Camera by Leo Brodie.

Yup, it's down right now because I was hosting images on it for my blog and the blog's traffic skyrocketed over the last month and I exceeded my bandwidth. It'll be back online the 1st of December or thereabouts. Sorry!