After building my first pirate animatronic a couple years ago with my brother, which I have named "The Helmsman", I wanted to take a stab at a much more complex build for a very dynamic pirate character, Davy Jones. I am starting on this goal of recreating some of the famous scenes from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies which feature Davy Jones by beginning to prototype his tentacle beard. The following write-up details my research, design work, manufacturing, assembly, power circuitry, and animation I did in order to begin bringing this concept to life!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/index.php/robots/show/animatronic-tentacle-beard-for-davy-jones