# Remy the Rat

> Source: <https://www.hackster.io/mandymeindersma/remy-the-rat-ba688c>
> Published: 2026-11-09 21:31:42+00:00

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:

- First time being able to wear something I made
- First time having a correct external power supply
- First time drawing a schematic circuit diagram (I usually just wing the wiring hahah)
- First time 3D printing
- 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)

Things I would do to make it better:

- 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.

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