Crawling Segway - The Cajun Crawler

[NEATman]

I just found this online, and wanted to share it with everyone here - Very cool mechanically, but kind of creepy to watch in operation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCPlczI3k-c#t=0m54s

It is a pair of cordless drill motors and lots of cool mechanical legs - no balancing software required as there are always 6 feet on the ground at any one time.

Keith

[Al_The_Man]

NEATman
Neat man

[Switcher]

Cool!

Looks like he is riding a spider.

I would put a seat on that thing (I'm lazy )


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[Geof]

Neatman;

Did you just find this randomly or are you connected to Cajuncrawler?

I put cajun crawler into Google and found it is out of the University of Louisiana.

I wonder if those geeks realise the value of this mechanism for wheelchairs? I guess they wouldn't be wheelchair if they used this type of mechanism.

[vlmarshall]

Theo Jansen's leg design is sure getting around.

[KIMFAB]

Here is a little bigger version. You can see the guy controlling it inside.

YouTube - Theo Jansen - Animaris Rhinoceros

YouTube - Theo Jansen - Animaris Rhinoceros

[DareBee]

Pretty cool

It appears that it wouldn't work too well off of a flat surface - and in that case you still might as well use wheels

[DR-Motion]

How about a roll yer own. The dimensions in the jpeg are from the original designer.
By adjusting the various arms you can determine the height of step the mechanism can clear.

[NEATman]

DR Motion- Thanks for posting the pictures - I was interested to see if someone had the geometery on these legs.

Kimfab - I like the video's.

Geof - I'm not connected with Cajuncrawler - I work where the Segway was invented.

Keith