{"id":1076,"date":"2014-05-27T06:50:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T06:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steintalya.com\/itp\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2014-05-31T22:43:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T22:43:39","slug":"one-tentacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steintalya.com\/itp\/one-tentacle\/","title":{"rendered":"One Tentacle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that I know I’m making the creature out of tentacles, it all feels much clearer.
\nI sat down to draw a new sketch:
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\n<\/a>and then made a model out of sculpey clay (clay that doesn’t dry up till you put it in the oven. and then you can burn it at you oven at home:
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\nI always like to make my first testing out of foam core. It’s a quick cut, cheap and quick to assemble. I’m trying to connect all the pieces from a simple puzzle method, where all the pieces just “click” together.
\nThis is the first mounting attempt:
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\nAfter a few attempts I cut it out of 0.1” plexiglass,\u00a0ready to test it out with the motors
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\n<\/a>They are just 2 pulleys. One pulley controlling the left-right movement, and one pulley controlling the up-down movement. Combining them together, gives us the tentacle movement.
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\n<\/a>First motor attempt:
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