Creepy Crawler

[Brian Rupnow]

Does anyone know where I can get a good animation of the "Cajun Crawler", built by students of Louisiana university. It was built by a student Don Tamosaitis, based on kinetic sculptor by Theo Jansen. It was apparently modelled in Solidworks.---I would love to build one, possibly powered by steam. You can see what I am talking about in the attached video link.---Btian
http://ultoday.com/node/408

 

[Brian Rupnow]

Found one---
http://www.mekanizmalar.com/theo_jansen.shtml

 

[Brian Rupnow]

Found two==
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OR8-775Rv4&feature=related[/ame]

 

[Bernd]

Here ya go Brian, a couple of more to look at. One is steam powered.

http://www.mechanicalspider.com/

http://www.crabfu.com/steamtoys/rc_steam_spider/

May not have as many legs but the concept looks the same.

Bernd

 

[lathe nut]

Brain, that university is about an hour drive from where I live, we have an office in that town, will ask some the young fellows that work with us if they know anything of that beast and see if some information can be obtained, the words in the caption (French, Let the Good times roll) need to sell that to the Government, cheap transportation, I am being bad, Lathe Nut