Jansen's Linkage - Strandbeest Walking Leg Desk Kit

Theo Jansen builds giant walking beach creatures, the Strandbeests, out of plastic tubing. Their legs run on eleven link lengths he evolved on a computer and calls the holy numbers. This kit is one of those legs, drawn to his exact ratios: turn one crank, and the foot walks a long flat stride, lifts, and swings back. Turn the knurled crank and the red foot pin follows its walking path, cut as a groove in the walnut-style base over an engraved 10 mm graph grid. Two triangular truss links, slotte…

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