If you print some claws that go on the end you can thread 4 more cables through the center of this print to control the claw. Attach actuators to each of the cables and you have an automated flexible claw that can grab anything
Put 3 together to make a HYDRA... connect all 12 strings to a spinning plate connected to a gear... that way they move in a repetitive way over and over
This would be such a cool haunter prop! Have like an alien bursting out of the chest and have your puppeting hand in your shirt hidden, AND, where your elbow is on your puppeting hand throw a prop arm over it and yeah, now that arm is wiggling in pain whilst holding onto your alien invader!
I wonder if it'd be possible to make a snake head that stays even with the ground? so it hangs forward when you lift up the end like that, but when you lower it the head stays parallel to the friend and keeps facing forward