Tentacle Puppet

This was a branch off of the animatronic Parrot Project, where I was trying to figure out a way to give the bird a neck. Ended up focusing more on this than the parrot, and then decided to separate them so I could break the design requirements of a short bird neck. The core is speedometer cable, as it's double wrapped to keep from twisting, and the cable is standard diameter bicycle brake line. Each stage is marked by a custom machined aluminum divider, and each in-between stage is 3d printed nylon, so we could reduce the overall weight that the brake line would have to hold up.

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