This started out as an exercise in making the smallest ball joint tentacle that I could get to print reliably on my printer. It turned into a cute little octopus when I decided to make a fun gift out of the tentacles. It's surprisingly annoying and time-consuming to build, since each segment needs to be hand-trimmed of support and carefully snapped into the next, but the resulting toy has a lot of flexibility and posability.
Printing the segments in all different colors to make a rainbow octopus is optional but highly recommended.
Update 4/5 - I was experimenting with some freehand sculpting tools, and created a big-eyed alien head for the octopus that I've uploaded.
Update 4/7 - added a fantasy steampunk submarine version of the main body.
Update 4/9 - skull body remixed from http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4126
| body-alienhead.stl | 4.7MB | |
| body-skull.STL | 1.2MB | |
| body-steampunk.stl | 2.4MB | |
| octopus_body.stl | 622.1KB | |
| octopus_body_supported.stl | 677.3KB | |
| tentacle_end.stl | 75.2KB | |
| tentacle_end_supported.stl | 84.0KB | |
| tentacle_end_supported_x8.stl | 645.4KB | |
| tentacle_segment.stl | 136.7KB | |
| tentacle_segment_supported.stl | 141.6KB | |
| tentacle_segment_supported_x8.stl | 864.9KB |
