Paper Strandbeest Is Strong Enough to Walk

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62 points·NicoJuicy··12 comments

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

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

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

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

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.

You there! Stop having fun!

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

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

> 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

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

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

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?

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