I built this model in June 2007 after seeing videos of Theo Jansen's amazing "strandbeest" creations.

To help the design process, given the limited parts I had available,
I wrote a Java program to simulate different components.

You can see a couple of videos of the walker, and play with the simulation Java applet at:

http://www.RoboticsLearning.com/jansenwalker

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLW-NPnqbJQ

Steve Putz
steve@RoboticsLearning.com