Today on Hack A Day: Animatronic Tentacles

[von Corax]

I just read part I of a promised series of articles on building animatronic tentacles, like this one:



The full article is here, and I shall update this thread as subsequent articles are published.

[Hez]

The blind flailing is profoundly creepy.

and cool.

[walking stick]

Oooohh! Like.

[Banfili]

Kool as!

[RJBowman]

I think that they used something like this for the Andorians' antennas on "Enterprise".

[Hektor Plasm]

Ah- thank you. This should prove most useful...

HP

[von Corax]

Part II of the article describes the manual controllers for the tentacle.

[von Corax]

The article concludes with final assembly of the tentacle system.