I am guessing this awesome chair was at a festival in the desert

[jlw]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/10/i-am-guessing-this-awesome-cha.html

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[Brainspore]

Cool application of Jansen’s Linkage (invented by kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen).

[HMSGoose]

I knew I saw some Strandbeest DNA in there…

[Papasan]

I saw something like that on my commute today.

[Brainspore]

I tried building a gizmo that operated along the same lines a few months back, mine didn’t work as well as his but it was a fun project anyway. I called it “Babayaga Birdhouse.”

[Rusty_Blazenhoff]

That’s my friend Mark Ellis’ Playa Crawler! https://www.facebook.com/theplayacrawler/

[enkidoodler]

I think this was on BB a while back but he was having problems w it (esp like… turning). I love any Strandbeest offspring. The whole idea of autonomous beach combers, powered by the wind is like something out of Australian sci fi writerTerry Dowling’s awesome Rynosseros series. In a few years they’ll be intelligent, combing the beach for plastic and metal flotsam and jetsam, with which they slowly print a copy of themselves… and so the cycle continues.

[beep54orama]

Make it go!! I wanna see it GOOOO!!!

[soulb]

I saw that chair at that festival in the desert and said that’s a cool chair to have at that festival in the desert.

[Franko]

i want that chair from the festival in the desert.

[Brainspore]

Sorry, already dismantled for parts (the logic board was needed elsewhere). I’ll send you the plans if you want to build one though.

[FGD135]