{"id":197,"date":"2013-03-18T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T08:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/03\/18\/all-hail-the-octopod\/"},"modified":"2013-03-18T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T08:55:09","slug":"all-hail-the-octopod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/03\/all-hail-the-octopod\/","title":{"rendered":"All Hail THE OCTOPOD!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCreated by Sean Charlesworth<\/a> and totally *{squeeeeee!}*<\/I>worthy:
\nIt has working suckers on the tentacles! Opposable arms! LED lights! An operational iris access hatch! It was 3D-printed in basically a single pass and required *no painting*! (Tons more pics and vids here<\/a>, including some footage of the printing process and a time-lapse of the final build.)
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\nThere’s also this nifty interview with Charlesworth<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Of all the mechanical bits to work out, the tentacles were by far the hardest and required the most test prints. I knew the tentacles had to really come alive or the model would be a flop. I rejected traditional joints for various reasons and ended up printing a flexible core with Objet\u2019s rubber-like Tango material and fusing Objet Vero rigid knuckles to it for detail. I modeled a small shaft down the center and inserted brass armature wires afterward so the tentacles could be posed dramatically. It took about four versions to get it right. . . . I found the Objet Connex [3D printer]<\/a> to be great for this project due to the multiple materials. While the ABS-like Digital Material would have ultimately been the best choice structurally, I didn\u2019t want to deal with painting the model. I chose to do most of it with the Black and White Vero materials since I could digitally mix them and have something that looked great right out of the printer. I was also really happy with the resolution and precision of the parts.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Created by Sean Charlesworth and totally *{squeeeeee!}*worthy: It has working suckers on the tentacles! Opposable arms! LED lights! An operational iris access hatch! It was 3D-printed in basically a single pass and required *no painting*! (Tons more pics and vids here, including some footage of the printing process and a time-lapse of the final build.) … Continue reading “All Hail THE OCTOPOD!!!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}