Algodoo

I used s_noonan's Animated Gumby scene to make an animated talking head. His Gumby scene, as well as my Dancing Aliens scene, used the axles directly to rotate the joints. For my Talking Head scene, I needed linear actuators, and so I made a simple spring linear actuator that moves the eyes and opens and closes the eyelids, and the mouth. Instructions are in the scene.

THE SCENE COMES PRE-LOADED WITH A DEMO TALKING HEAD ROUTINE. AFTER STARTING ALGODOO, PRESS THE P (PLAY) KEY TO WATCH IT! YOU CAN ALSO PRESS THE L (LOOP) KEY IF YOU WANT THE WOMAN TO KEEP TALKING WITHOUT STOPPING (like my ex-wife).

You may copy my linear actuators if you want to use them to make your own animated whatever. If you do, please give me and/or s_noonan credit for any items that you copy and use in your own scene. Thanks!

UPDATE - Corrected text for eyelids (thanks to s_noonan for catching this!)