Paper Strandbeest Is Strong Enough to Walk(hackaday.com)

62 pointsby NicoJuicyvor 7 Jahren12 comments

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Paper Strandbeest Is Strong Enough to Walk

https://hackaday.com/2019/06/01/paper-strandbeest-is-strong-enough-to-walk/

12 comments

scdoshivor 7 Jahren

Interesting set of videos by Jansen explaining systems used to create strandbeest: https://www.strandbeest.com/explains

tim333vor 7 Jahren

And him on how you may help the strandbeests reproduce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U02qqB-2nbs&feature=youtu.be...

character0vor 7 Jahren

I was hoping these would be wind powered like his larger sculptures, but I guess it makes sense that it wouldn't be possible with paper

Doxinvor 7 Jahren

I'm sure it would be possible. Theo Jansen himself created a wind-powered one out of cardboard: https://youtu.be/MYGJ9jrbpvg?t=222

mhbvor 7 Jahren

So it's some kind of breakthrough that you can make a walking toy with motors and an offset crank? And I guess you need an Arduino for this too. The whole Strandbeest worship is mystifying.

PhasmaFelisvor 7 Jahren

You there! Stop having fun!

mhbvor 7 Jahren

Bristlebot: https://youtu.be/rUSTXUis_ys Go crazy.

soulofmischiefvor 7 Jahren

You must be fun at parties. Try taking a trip to your local gallery sometime and appreciating art for art's sake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansen%27s_linkage

dangvor 7 Jahren

> You must be fun at parties.

Please edit personal swipes out of your comments here. Your post would be much better without that bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

soulofmischiefvor 7 Jahren

You got it, dang. I was being light-hearted but I get it, Poe's law and all.

mhbvor 7 Jahren

If it was just art, it wouldn't be irritating. But there's this: Since 1990 I have been occupied creating new forms of life.[1] So an aspiring Damien Hirst endeavoring to create a mythology[2] to support sales or mindshare or whatever of this stuff.

[1] https://www.strandbeest.com/ [2] https://www.strandbeest.com/fossils

soulofmischiefvor 7 Jahren

Why are you irritated by what an engineer on the other side of the world does in their free time?

Are you irritated because it's popular? Would it not irritate you if no one knew what Theo Jansen was up to?