{"slug": "remy-the-rat", "title": "Remy the Rat", "summary": "A software engineer built a wearable Remy the Rat costume based on an idea from Instagram creator @SheBuildsRobots, completing several firsts including a schematic circuit diagram, 3D printing, and STL file editing. The builder said the servo-motor-to-arm joints kept breaking or bending so the arm would not move up, and plans to try a tendon joint next time because the motors are too big to fit in the shoulders. The STL edit was made via a pull request to the shebuildsrobots/remy_model GitHub repository, which the builder noted was done with help from Claude.", "body_md": "I am absolutely obsessed with rats and pigeons so every year for halloween I dress up as some sort of rat or pigeon and last year I saw [@SheBuildsRobots](https://www.instagram.com/shebuildsrobots) idea for Remy and I knew I had to try it! This project had a lot of firsts for me:\n\n- First time being able to wear something I made\n- First time having a correct external power supply\n- First time drawing a schematic circuit diagram (I usually just wing the wiring hahah)\n- First time 3D printing\n- First time editing an stl file (unfortunately claude helped) [https://github.com/shebuildsrobots/remy_model/pull/14](https://github.com/shebuildsrobots/remy_model/pull/14)\n\nThings I would do to make it better:\n\n- The wires that were connecting the servo motors to the 3D printed arms kept breaking or they would bend weirdly and the arm wouldn't move up. So I would want to figure out a different way to do that joint. The motors are too big to fit into his shoulders so maybe I would try to do a [tendon joint](https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/65dsyt/version_one_3d_printed_finger_with_flexible_tendon/) next time? I have never tried those.\n\n[Read more](<javascript:void(0)>)\n\n3 projects • 0 followers\n\nSoftware Engineer by day, Hardware engineer by night! I love Iot, robotics, arduino, fashioneering, and anything else I can get my hands on!\n\nThanks to", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/remy-the-rat", "canonical_source": "https://www.hackster.io/mandymeindersma/remy-the-rat-ba688c", "published_at": "2026-11-09 21:31:42+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-10 00:51:18.451267+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics"], "entities": ["Remy the Rat", "@SheBuildsRobots", "Claude", "GitHub"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/remy-the-rat", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/remy-the-rat.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/remy-the-rat.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/remy-the-rat.jsonld"}}