The Uminami Strandbeest – The Kid Should See This


A new design that hearkens to Theo Jansen‘s original kinetic structures from the early 1990s, the PVC tube-constructed Uminami Strandbeest doesn’t get sand into its joints and requires no lubrication to move smoothly. Watch as it speeds across the sand on a beach, presumably not far from Ypenburg in The Netherlands where Jansen lives and works.

Desktop-sized Strandbeests are fun for all ages to build and play with[…]

Source: The Uminami Strandbeest

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