Wind Powered Walking Machines

MyDixieWrecked writes "PopularScience has an interesting article about some wind powered machines. The creator is working on a new design that will be able to store the power from the wind to keep up momentum even after the wind stops." The creator's website has some more pictures and video.

Comments

Mars probe?

[Anonymous Coward]

Could we use something like these to send to Mars, assemble themselves (or have small robots do that) and then keep them walking and taking pictures (and steering away from chasms)?

Some of the images looked like 3D renderings. So, wonder what the feasibility of all this is...

like clockwork....

[foniksonik]

Much like the sands of the hourglass... blah blah... seriously though, very cool work, just wish the flash control jscript worked on my mac... can't get beyond the funky video of the crank...

I can see how he plans to store the windpower in the pistons though, springy.

I like the pictures of the beetles the best... love how he's using ground effects to generate leg movin' vibrations. Makes ya think about bumblebee turbulence, etc. a little.

So air flows over the tops of these slinkies and creates downward momentum that's converted into forward momentum via lovely sets of lever mechanisms... again, very clockwork. Very cool.

Gotta love simply principles of physics applied creatively to mechanics.

Crazy Dutchman!!!!