Phun - Theo Jansen Mechanism

For those who dont know, Theo Jansen is a kinetic sculptor who created this mechanism to make living sculptures, his so called "strandbeests"(beach animals). The real ones(not my simulation) are powered by wind only and have a small artificial intelligence that doesnt use eletricity. If ur interested on his work, watch these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMqftVhOuTw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CufN43By79s&feature=related

And heres the .phn file u've been asking for:
http://phun.cs.umu.se/upload/theo%20jansen1.phn

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[oldskoolchevelle]

song name? sounds bad ass. chunktuff is retarded

[xxGLhrMxx]

P.O.D. - If You Could See Me Now

it IS badass, lol

i guess you can't please everyone...

[oldskoolchevelle]

why cant i find this song?

[xxGLhrMxx]

/watch?v=nIVFAONU_Dc

[xxGLhrMxx]

oh damn... they deleted it :/

sorry

the name of the album is Testify, highly recommended!

[xxGLhrMxx]

w w w . 4 shared . com / account / file / 67580035/69c8c842/03-pod-if_yo­u_could_see_me_now . ht ml

found one

erase the spaces

[VoteNixon2008]

How many moles of LSD do I have to take to think of something like this?

[kamakazi612]

is the only motor th one in the middle?

[TheSnailfan]

(Minecraft)

[TheSnailfan]

With that, you can construct a cool Creeper

[Interpr3ter]

that thing totally freakes me out!

[alertthepro]

cool.

[joertjoert]

It's actually very hard to make. since it has no resting state in which the limbs are all straight, like all the other fun walkers you see. I tried for a long time, and kept failing.

[gom222555]

Epic

[brad10474]

if you want a download link pm me I've made one too

[XxxxangerxxxX]

for a few months i tried to figure it out and i got it

[MegaTim42]

@kamakazi612 Yes. This robot in real life actually runs on wind power and kinetic energy and once it starts, it keeps going and going. This one on phun runs, yes, with one motor. I don't think phun has a good enough physics engine for quality kinetic motion.