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A friend of mine e-mailed this link:

“How to build a tornado machine in your living room”

Impressive piece of work.

Theo Jansen creates windpowered sculptures. They live on the beach and move around in a very organic way.

Visit the site www.strandbeest.com and watch the different movies.

/Incredible!

This model is loaded by a deadly round of paper. Pressure builds and then hell is unleashed upon your enemies. Either by manual fire or the ultrasound-sensor.

As we are John Deere fans we tried to create this one. Also more parts from different Lego Technic models.

While Batman is resting from the spin in the tumbler we tried the big wheels from other Lego technics models. We think this has some potential.

Well, the tumblertest ended up as a remotecrontrolled ride for Batman….
You can shift direction and speed.

Bastis creation,

Starts by sound and rotates by random degrees.

The first test to create a tumbling robot.

We have a stabilityproblem….

Bastis creation.

It beeps as it gets closer to an obstacle and then tries to avoid it.

This was our first attempt to implement “holomonomononic…..” (yeah, whatever) drive.

Can’t say that it was a great success – but it’s original.