The Sea Beast - a 12 legged walker

This beast has 12 legs and is driven by a motor in the center. The legs walk the same as those from the "Strandbeest", made by the famous kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen.




Piece list for one pair of legs:
Rods
10 white
8 green
1 Blue

Connectors
18 black hinge halves (These are a must!)
10 gray 1-way
10 gray 2-way
8 tan

2 blue spacers

note: In my own model I used black snap-on caps instead of tan connectors, you could use them as well if you have them.
note 2: This uses a lot of black hinge parts, you can buy these at knexusergroup if you live anywhere but in the US.

Enjoy!

~ Kairah ~

Step 1: Making the legs

This step is for making one pair of legs. You will have to make this part 6 times.


So the legs are pretty tricky, lets start with making all the loose parts for one leg first.

Once you have made these you can put them together like shown in the next pictures.

Alright, then you have to make another one, and connect them together with a blue rod, two spacers and two gray connectors, and your'e done!

Comments

[ShadowKnight16]

Epic! 5 stars

[cool knex13]

looks funny!

[Kahsyrbag]

If only I had that motor, yours is 190rpm I got the black 22rpm motor.

[interman]

I made it 5 stars! :)

[aleceatsfood]

WOrks well (I haven't built it yet) but Just saying this thing would be a nice back massager! I cant see what are the peices on the legs that are on the white rods in the middle of the first picture?

[Kairah]

I think you mean > these <

[aleceatsfood]

oh I have the hinges but not the caps too bad...

[Kairah]

You could use tan connectors instead and make only 4 pair of legs.
Just keep enough distance between the legs.

[aleceatsfood]

how many hinges does 1 leg use?

[Kairah]

One leg uses 9 hinges, as you can see in the first picture :P

[aleceatsfood]

oh i guess i was too lazy to look. And I only have like 4 hinges :P

[michiel123456789]

Very nice and compact! 5* But I've got a question, does it matter how long the axle is??? You used a yellow rod, can it also be a red rod (I'll have to 'cause my motor is pretty wide).

[Kairah]

Cheers! If you are going to use a red rod, you will need to make some more distance between the first pair of legs and the motor. Otherwise the axle will stick between the legs and it cant walk! :)

[michiel123456789]

Ok thanx!

[Fr-Pa-Co]

did you enter this into the kinetic sculptures contest

[qwerty2008]

i built one of these about a year back. i just saw how they worked then started building. i used this same structure just longer rods.

[danbaha]

What is that song called?

[Kairah]

jim noir - my patch

[anres321]

awesome !! 5*

[rhysc7]

whats up with the music

[topcat123]

 awesome and creepy

[RESTRICTED]

 All i can say is this looks awesome! I built the strand beest done by crestind, but this looks a lot sturdier. I can't wait to build it!

[Seleziona]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[sprout_less]

 I'm amazing.Just kidding. Ok so I found away that you can not use all the black hinges. Look at the picture!

p.s. Sorry for the bad quality picture, i was using my web cam.

[Kairah]

If you put the black clip on in the other direction it turns slightly better.

[sprout_less]

 correct! it doesn't work quiet as well but its better than not getting to build it.

[Kairah]

Do you mean like this? It fits, but doesn't turn very well unfortunately.

[knexsuperbuilderfreak]

NICE WALKER! i might bulid later if i have enough hinges
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[Mr. Muggle]

I faved this! I only have 23 faves

[travw]

I think I sh@t myself.

That is all.

[Arbitror]

Now this is a cool k'nex project! It's good to see people thinking out of the box, that is the k'nex gun box...

[TigerNod]

Just pure plain awesomeness, knex style. Great work, 5 stars!

[Shadowman39]

Awesome! And congratulations on getting it featured! 5*

[I_am_Canadian]

Very well made, great work.

[Stephen D. Alverez]

Strandbeesten is the proper name. It translates into "sand beast" or  "beach beast" not sea beast. Still pretty narly.

[Mr. Muggle]

oh, you build awesome stuff! it's pretty speedy too!
how is your huge ball machine coming along?
you must post pictures and a video here on instructables of that thing!

[Kairah]

 I will post more pictures and a video when it is finished. Please be a little bit more patient :)

That reminds me I have one week vacation very soon, so more time to build!

[Mr. Muggle]

yeah! no school!!

[Hiyadudez]

:O It got featured too!

Congrats!

[Kairah]

 Thanks, its my first featured!