The vocabulary of the shop — drawn where a drawing beats a paragraph, then defined plainly.
The diagram board
CosNFX maps a costume into effect areas — head, chest, hands — each its own trigger with its own sound. Calibration teaches the zones your motion.
Battery → board → strip, with data as the thin wire between. Amps flow by the meter — the cheat sheet does the hours math.
The servo's horn pulls a push-rod; the rod lifts the eyelid. Angle in, expression out — every blink is a 90° story.
A strip whose every pixel takes orders — one data wire, endless patterns.
Slicing EVA at an angle so glued seams close into a smooth curve.
The foam glue: coat both sides, dry, then join — it bonds on contact.
See the site's rug cousins — here, a sheared prop pile that reads as fabric.
Ignoring a sensor's double-fires so one gesture = one cue.
Anything translucent between LED and eye — the 10 mm rule turns points into glow.
Heat-formable closed-cell foam; thickness in mm is the build's vocabulary.
Where an effect should land: the strike point of the movement, not its start.
The app's editable trigger areas — seven by default, calibrated to you.
Warming EVA so it keeps a new shape — gloves + ventilation always.
The milliseconds between gesture and sound; watch-speaker ≈ instant, Bluetooth +150–300 ms.
The rubbery primer coat that makes foam paintable and sealable.
The app's one-time upgrade: custom content, timelines, prop control, no attribution line.
A servo's instruction: 1–2 ms pulses choose the angle; sent 50× a second.
The linkage translating servo angle into eyelid/brow motion.
The sealing layer before paint — Plasti Dip, gesso, or mod-podge, in order of budget.
A gearmotor that holds an angle instead of spinning — animatronics in a box.
Bench-checking a mech's full motion before it meets glue or skin.
The paint arts that age props: washes in recesses, dry-brush on edges, chips at stress.
Build TV's sections — one craft, one shelf of video.