“Come closer, dear. My eyes aren't what they were.”
Children's stories, told from the wolf's side, with her jaw moving on every word and her head turning for each character: Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks, The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids.
▶ Ask for a story
Knock on her crystal ball and she reads you three cards: past, present and future. The reading's theme appears first as an omen in the smoke, then each card rises out of the gold mist as she speaks.
● Knock two to four times
She sits on a wooden fortune-teller cabinet with a brass clock crank. Turn it one full turn and she listens for one answer. She asks riddles; after the twelfth, that same turn drops the chest door.
⟳ Turn the crank
The ball plays each moment of the reading as she speaks it: first the omen, then each card rising out of the mist.
A crown, in the smoke
Judgement
Strength
Under Grandma's headscarf is a skull-jawed wolf on an aluminum-channel skeleton. Ten DS3218 servos move her. Two sit in a V behind her head and drive a cardan (universal) joint: together they nod, opposed they cock her head to one side. A third pans her head, a fourth works her jaw, and her shoulders, elbows and new abduction joints let her arms reach forward, curl and swing out to the side. A strip of WS2812 LEDs lights her eyes.
Her brain is an ESP32-S3 running MicroPython, with a Pimoroni Servo 2040 easing every move at 50 Hz. She sits on a wooden cabinet with a brass clock crank and a real Hermle ratchet. Talos drives her voice, jaw and gestures, so every word lands with a movement.
