Thursday 27 September 2007

Theo Jansen...genius...

Dutch artist Theo Jansen builds wind powered automata collectively known as StrandBeests; each design has it's own Latin binomial and usually a unique inbuilt survival strategy, e.g. a dangling siphon mechanism that prevents it from wading too deep into the water; or a tail spike with an automated hammer so that the Beest can anchor itself to the ground when the wind picks up...


Via: VideoSift

Jansen's walking mechanism is designed such that the "hip" remains level and at a constant distnce above the ground plane...as would the axel of a wheel



the above video was animated by a Mr. Daniel Wyllie

3 comments:

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