The Virtual Fortune Teller Zoltar

A few years ago I built a six foot Zoltar fortune teller cabinet that had a coin-operated animatronic mannequin of Zoltar himself. I've been to a number of comic cons with the cabinet and run school group showing how he's programmed, but he's getting a little tired and worn out. This is an update video on how I'm trying to build a virtual version of the fortune teller to allow more people access to his words of wisdom.

The virtual Zoltar makes use of a cloud messaging platform called Ably which allows the fortune teller to 'see' all the questions coming in from anyone accessing the sight. If you watch him long enough, you will start to see these requests coming in and being answered.

Be careful what you wish for, it might just come true!



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