2012 – Walking Pod – Scott Parenteau (American)

Original article copied from Core77 here. Burning Man: Walking Pod, Mechanical Beest Vehicle Posted by Jessica Charlesworth  |  13 Sep 2012  |  Comments (2) Meet Scott, a commercial welder who by day runs his own sheet metal fabricating business in Sacramento with 3 other colleagues, and by night, he constructs metal geodesic dome mutant vehicles …

2012 – “Octipes Vehiculum” Human Powered Walking Machine – Silas Ulbrich (German)

Text from Video Clip: Octipes Vehiculum is an 8-legged walking machine which I built for my studies in mechanical engieneering in 2012 at my university (Fachhochschule Stralsund, Germany). It is muscle-powered, driven by a pedal movement. I was inspired by the strandbeesten of Theo Jansen (www.strandbeest.com). Unfortunately the vehicle isn`t able to walk under full …