Ball-joint articulated octopus

Ball-joint articulated octopus is a downloadable 3D printable model for printer parts. Review the files, license, and creator attribution before printing.

Original creator description

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 fa... This hosted file keeps creator credit and license details.

Topics and tags

Printer parts CC-BY-4.0Creative Commonsball jointoctopustoy

Popularity

462 downloads from 3D-Printed.org.

Print details

Difficulty
beginner
Materials
PLA suggested; confirm scale and supports in your slicer before printing.

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body-alienhead.stl
STL · 4.7 MB
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body-skull.stl
STL · 1.2 MB
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body-steampunk.stl
STL · 2.4 MB
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octopus_body.stl
STL · 622.1 KB
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octopus_body_supported.stl
STL · 677.3 KB
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tentacle_end.stl
STL · 75.2 KB
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tentacle_end_supported.stl
STL · 84.0 KB
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tentacle_end_supported_x8.stl
STL · 645.4 KB
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tentacle_segment.stl
STL · 136.7 KB
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tentacle_segment_supported.stl
STL · 141.6 KB
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tentacle_segment_supported_x8.stl
STL · 864.9 KB
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File metadata

body-alienhead.stl
SHA-256: b74faf8a362d9673d7ebf203f39a15b92cfcf622ffb0038fdfa352e2745a0e0b
body-skull.stl
SHA-256: ed05fb27d853fe671464316bc4f093cb704039df602e276c6a73b497f911f923
body-steampunk.stl
SHA-256: 87d62af7ea9794cf942666747214f6327483ade1a0fac89a12bd2f660da89402
octopus_body.stl
SHA-256: 8d61567dfc0034a6438fafe1de74964c848155aa41b1110b1011fd817ad808c4
octopus_body_supported.stl
SHA-256: f70cc12bd22a9107265c5a120066261f05ad3cbb4a9eae0d5cc1c8cae68e796f
tentacle_end.stl
SHA-256: 4e63164eabde7434359c4c4086e1face07e9a8b65879e23c14706167bc82216f
tentacle_end_supported.stl
SHA-256: a107f718d43790f9ac6a1acc093115e7936e1419a6be2b34213f7b44af6f0b0d
tentacle_end_supported_x8.stl
SHA-256: 5bee7c3a4eb5ee826299bd930a1d4088f90b953e982eb1637dbcb533fa989cfe
tentacle_segment.stl
SHA-256: f936258cc6ec0eab2f1995b8cad56dcd86bc817b20f8af5d486c2fa1de214906
tentacle_segment_supported.stl
SHA-256: a04043cde9f5eb2390e640dc794f322b4c2f17c7ed067117bc7cf347d81d6db6
tentacle_segment_supported_x8.stl
SHA-256: d01815688c441eef92292bcbe29ea1d052db92d3f01bf8322a1deeea9a9e77e9

Attribution

Ball-joint articulated octopus by Ellindsey (the original source). License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Source: the original source