Walking Beest Design

I want to build a solar-powered robot based on the Theo Jansen walking "strandbeest" design (if you haven't seen this it's amazing!)

I made this out of cardboard to understand how the mechanism works. This is one half of a leg pair, and a walking creature needs 3 leg pairs or more (and runs off a basic drive axle at the top).

(Someone made a hamster-powered version.)

Hotrod Cat by Tim Carroll

Animation Station - Screen Tests

A bunch of friends young and old came over and helped me test out ideas for my Animation Station at the Austin Mini Maker Faire on Sunday. (If you're in town, come on down!)

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 Frog and Fly - Tim Carroll
 

 Shredding Man - Colin
 

Flying People - by the Flying People
 

 Astrid - by Astrid


 Dragon - Gage
 

 Bananagrams 1 - Tim Z.
 

 Bananagrams 2 - Tim Z.
 

Let's Look at Some Data - Colin

Mule and Balloon - Melissa

 Brunch - by the Brunch Crew





 Face - Tim C.?

Chicken Man - Tim Z.

 How Computers Work - Harry

Neurons Firing - Harry

Rocket

Tears - Harry

Missile - Harry & Orion

 Boy and Gun - Orion