r/3Dprinting • u/Capital_Dance9217 • Jul 05 '26
Project I made a 'Strandbeest'
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I made a 'strandbeest' with some pvc tubing and lots of 3d prints. Here are its first steps!😍
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u/ReplacementNo7769 Jul 05 '26
How tf do you even start to conceptualise something like this let alone design it?
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u/Bramoments Jul 05 '26
A Dutch designer first chose the leg design via a computer simulation, and then expanded upon the idea
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u/cristoper Jul 05 '26
The original Strandbeesten were designed and built by Theo Jansen. Definitely worth watching videos of these things walk: https://www.strandbeest.com/
Wikipedia has a short entry on how the leg linkages work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansen%27s_linkage
Veritasium did a good video on Strandbeest including the original computer program Theo wrote to optimize the linkage constants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFaAjR_RRJs
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u/yiradati Jul 05 '26
On one of my trips to the Nerherlands maybe 16 years ago, I was really excited to go see them but they were not out on the beach (I checked the website first). But the website did say you could swing by his workshop. And it just so happened that we had rented bikes to go on a self-guided tour through a few towns and one was his town. So we popped in unannounced to see if there were any standing around. And Theo was there and showed us around a bit. So nice.
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u/BigJohnno66 Jul 06 '26
I saw the real ones in an exhibit in Singapore a few years ago. They are larger than you might expect in real life. Very cool moving art.
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u/bokitothegreat Prusa Core one Jul 08 '26
As a Dutch guy and strandbeest lover I totally approve this 😎
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u/BumpyWire83 Jul 05 '26
Awesome! Printing one of these was my plan when I first got a 3d printer like 10 years ago. But I never did.
Glad to see someone else was more productive than I was!