Ultimate DeskSquid / Helping Hand

Step 7 Future Attachments

For my squid the future attachments involve using the remainder of my locline for some more arms. Ideas that I have so far include:

What are we doing tonight Brain?
"The same thing we do every night Pinky. Try to take over the world..... by giving the DeskSquid self awareness and A.I. so that it can learn to self replicated and take over the world. We'll start by interrogating a beautiful maiden!" (See picture)

Vacuum + Compressed Air
It would be easy to run some nylon hose up the main arm and out to a 1/4" arm, which could then be hooked up to an air compressor or spray can, or even a shopvac. I've also got a few of those small keyboard battery powered vacuums. This might be handy for cutting with the dremel or getting glue to set up faster. The small 5V fans would also be handy for soldering smoke. I'll post an update if I get around to doing this at some point.

LCD/iPod/PSP Holder
This is a bit of a knock of from rstraugh, it would be nice to have another tool arm that could hold either my parallax LCD or iTouch, or even the multimeter. This would be a luxury for sure but since I'm dreaming...why not?

Those are the big two (or three) on the wish list, since there's a 6/32 thread at the end of the arms there are lots of options (parts bin, more lights, etc.) The only concern is really weight, since it's easy enough to run power through the locline. Also if you use the USB LED lights, those already have cables through them.

Thanks to all the great ideas that came before this one, the comments and post by other users saved me a lot of trial and error!!