Robotic Christmas Teapot

via gzumwalt on instructables

“Robotic Christmas Teapot” (my wife calls it Robotic Christmas “Treepot”) is a motorized, animated Christmas themed teapot.

The animated mechanism features three axis of rotation; pitch (the spout), yaw (the handle) and roll (the body), plus a “wobbling” circular travel path, and is powered by a 3.7VDC 100MA LIPO battery driving an N20 6VDC 100RPM gear motor. The model draws around 8MA during operation.

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