Brute force and time... Model it in it's extended form, add a CRAP-TON of joints, skin it, beat your head on your keyboard as you discover ways you fucked up, try not to commit suicide while slogging through the repetition. IF you where a rigging and scripting guru you could probably find ways to script large portions of…
This looks fun, haha. I'm a crap rigger, but this video helps demonstrate the mechanism. The way I see it, it's repetition of scissors driven by the outer green 3 and 4 way connectors. Looking at the lower-mid-left section, I think only one part of the rig needs to be solved, it's just a matter of scripting the placement…