On Philippe ”Philo” Hurbain’s LEGO site, I found these amazing 8-legged LEGO walkers. Here you can find a movie of this walker… its very impressive!
These are designed after Theo Jansen’s amazing walking kinetic sculptures that are powered by wind or solar power. Here are some great videos of these Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures.
Here are two computer graphics studies of Theo Jansen’s mechanism.
Enjoy,
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Posted under Fun, Inventions, Lego, Mathematics, Robotics, Technology
This post was written by drknuth on December 11, 2007
Since Lego started releasing their development kits like Mindstorm, a lot of cool stuff has been built by people from all over the world.
Are these guys making use of the Mindstorm kit? Just wondering…
Sujith
IntellectualVillage.com
Yes indeed, the walking machine by Philo is constructed using Mindstorms