914Driver
914Driver SuperDork
6/26/11 7:54 a.m.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=HSKyHmjyrkA&feature=email

EastCoastMojo
EastCoastMojo GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
6/26/11 8:10 a.m.

Very cool! I hadn't seen these before!

I found this video that talks about the different parts of the animals. I say he's a little of all four, but throw in a bit of BRILLIANT.

DrBoost
DrBoost SuperDork
6/26/11 9:10 a.m.

Wow, amazing. Simply amazing.

EricM
EricM SuperDork
6/26/11 9:15 a.m.

brilliant

Lesley
Lesley SuperDork
6/26/11 9:17 a.m.

Oh YES, Theo Jansen is nuts, but in the best way. I love his creations!

Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon SuperDork
6/26/11 11:09 a.m.

Wow. That's amazing.

JoeyM
JoeyM GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
6/26/11 11:22 a.m.

that was a lot of mobility from the wind....I wonder how they do on less level terrain. I'm wondering if the winds on Mars would be strong enough to power a NASA rover.

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
6/26/11 11:54 a.m.

pure genius.. and yes.. would that work on Mars?

jamscal
jamscal Dork
6/26/11 12:29 p.m.

I want to know, since he says the 'legs' are in fact wheels (loosely paraphrasing here):

if I can make a pedal bike with 4 such legs.

Steering would be tough but it would be awesome just to go straight (until I hit the water, in which case I would go in reverse )

mattmacklind
mattmacklind SuperDork
6/26/11 12:31 p.m.

Its awesome. Check out the Rhino.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2KkGFuRLew&playnext=1&list=PL4BC60D6B2552B8B5

DILYSI Dave
DILYSI Dave SuperDork
6/26/11 1:27 p.m.

Anyone who claims that PVC is alive and parallels himself to God is trying real hard to fall into the "batE36 M3 insane" bucket.

AngryCorvair
AngryCorvair GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
6/26/11 1:54 p.m.
DILYSI Dave wrote: Anyone who claims that PVC is alive and parallels himself to God is trying real hard to fall into the "batE36 M3 insane" bucket.

what do you mean? just the other day i saw a piece of newspaper come to life and blow past me in the breeze.

jamscal
jamscal Dork
6/26/11 2:01 p.m.

Come on guys, the world needs crazies and I prefer them to be of this ilk.

If you think that we are 'powered' only because there is a very limited sphere where we can live and there are limits to what we can do...

If the sun didn't shine and the wind didn't blow we wouldn't 'work' or 'live' either...

^^^incomplete thoughts, but I see the parallels and hope I'm at least a little crazy.

-James

Salanis
Salanis SuperDork
6/26/11 2:14 p.m.

The difference between insanity and genius is in the hands of your marketing.

Luke
Luke SuperDork
6/27/11 2:30 a.m.

Amazing.

He certainly seems at least a little bit insane, but that doesn't detract from the brilliance of it.

novaderrik
novaderrik Dork
6/27/11 4:58 a.m.

i'd be all over it if they would make a line of toys based on these things.. imagine an Erector set that allowed you to build different variations..

N Sperlo
N Sperlo HalfDork
6/27/11 8:34 a.m.

Made it one hour before one got collapsed.

We had a sculpture that was called The Taurus at my community college. Truthfully it looked like a turd and I'm pretty sure the artist was nuts. It looked nothing like a car.

corytate
corytate Reader
6/27/11 1:55 p.m.

phenomenal. one of the coolenst thing's I've ever seen.
Everyone is a bit insane, and why does the fact that he has the imagination to make something that wonderful, something that will make your eyes light up and your mind think about how you never even thought of something like that, mean that he is more insane than any of us?

DILYSI Dave
DILYSI Dave SuperDork
6/27/11 3:10 p.m.

Because the rest of us don't claim to have breathed life into plumbing fittings.

corytate
corytate Reader
6/27/11 6:58 p.m.
DILYSI Dave wrote: Because the rest of us don't claim to have breathed life into plumbing fittings.

good point. lol

fasted58
fasted58 HalfDork
6/28/11 1:13 a.m.

when he does it in copper and brass plumbing I'll truly be impressed

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