I've heard of Theo Jansen for years, but it was worth coming
a long way to see one of his creations in action.
https://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66356,00.html
That would be Theo there in the shirt, accompanied by
some Dutch beast-wranglers.
It's like a Mark Pauline creation, but from a gentle
planet of winds.
They're 100 percent handicrafted, but they bear a few
telltale marks of their computer-generated ancestry.
Check out the awesome detailing on this baby:
PVC plumbing pipes, clotheslines and plastic
cable-ties! Plus empty plastic recycled jugs for
pneumatic wind-power!
That's right: crankshafts.
Pistons.
Pneumatic, uh, ganglia.
And then IT STARTED WALKING. Man, that made me happy.
