Tube assembly

Our team has completed the assembly of the aluminum tubes that will be used in the nervous machine. The material for the tubes were surpluss stock from place called The Yard. Most of the Assembly was done using a cable crimp-er. The crimp-er is made by Fehr Brothers and was special ordered for a job I did some time back. The cell phone motors were purchased froma electronics surplus company called Allelectronics.  I have also finally decided on what the body of the machine will look like. I have attached a drawing that was created in cad and than converted to a pdf file for other to see. I apologise for not having any dimensions on the drawing. The drawing is basically a flat pattern that will be used to cut the metal on the cnc plasma cutter.

sound design nervous machine.pdf

Building the machine

I am uploading a batch of images so that people can see whats going on with the machine. I am planing on putting about 80 of these 6' long tentacles on the machine and each tentacle requires the manufacturing and assembly of 16 parts. 16 * 80 = 1280 or in art terms a butt load.