What is Captain Cogbrow

Captain Cogbrow is one of Bottango’s “all-in-one” animatronic kits. You can learn more about Captain Cogbrow on the Bottango shop product page.

Captain Cogbrow

Shop: https://www.bottango.com/products/captain-cogbrow

Captain Cogbrow has a standard and pro version. The animatronic itself is the same in both versions, but the pro version contains additional functionality that the standard version does not have:

• On figure audio hardware + speakers
• SD card module for storing animations and audio files
• Physical animation triggering buttons
• Hardware to enable wireless control and animating of Captain Cogbrow.

Assemble and Animate in Bottango

Everything you need to learn how to build and animate both versions of Captain Cogbrow is in the Bottango application itself. Download the latest version of Bottango, and select the “Captain Cogbrow” option in the middle of the Home screen:

You’ll be given interactive 3D assembly steps, a ready-to-go Captain Cogbrow animation project, and in-app tutorials and lessons teaching the essentials of how to connect to and animate Maxwell.

Tutorial Videos

While learning Captain Cogbrow in the Bottango application, some concepts are taught through video guides. The videos feature Maxwell in the content, but the lessons and steps are the same for both figures. Those videos are provided here as well if you’d like:

🎦 Learn To Animate In this video, we'll learn how to animate Maxwell.

🎦 Add Audio and Video In this video, we'll learn how to add audio and video to animations with Maxwell.

🎦 Add Audio and Video In this video, we'll learn how to animate Maxwell by recording live puppeteered input from USB devices or audio.

Pro Kit Features

The Pro Kit documentation provided after this page is a walkthrough on how to use the pro version of Captain Cogbrow’s additional functionality.