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Strandbeest Walker-Vanilla-Thomas Hubel

This is a walker based on Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest.

No mods were used.

This walker is not appropriate for survival games.

Operating Instructions:

To operate the Strandbeest you will need to access its remote control block. This can be done through the passenger seat on the Strandbeest or with the antenna. The remote control block is already set up with controles.

Controles:
1 = Stop
2 = Increase velocity of left legs
3 = Increase velocity of right legs
4 = Decrease velocity of left legs
5 = Decrease velocity of right legs
6 = Turn lights on/off
7 = Extend/Retract seat
8 = Park
9 = Unpark

When the Strandbeest is first pasted into the game it is parked so the first thing you will need to do the press the unpark button. The unparking process will take a few seconds because it needs to get its legs into walking possession before retracting the landing gears.

Once it is unparked you can change the velocity of the strandbeests legs with the 1-5 keys. The velocity of the right legs and left legs can be controlled independently so you can turn be setting them to different velocities. For instance if you set one side of the have a positive velocity and the other to have a negative velocity the Strandbeest would tern in place.

When sitting in the passenger seat there are two text panels in the upper right and left corners of your vision. These display the current velocity of the right and left legs respectively. The number displayed is the velocity of the drive rotors for the legs on that side of the Strandbeest. It is in units of revolutions per minute.

If the text panels are offline that means the Strandbeest is stopped. This is different than the velocity being set to zero because when the velocity is set to zero there is still a programmable block periodically running to make sure the legs stay in sync with each other. When it is stopped this programmable block does not run. It is also worth noting that the piston which raises and lowers the seat only works when the Strandbeest is stopped.

About the Leg Design:

This leg design was originally created for real world machines by Theo Jansen. More information about this design can be found here: http://www.strandbeest.com/beests_leg.php

To translate this design into space engineers I used many rotors and pistons for each leg. However, only one rotor on each leg is powered. This one rotor drives the motion of the entire leg. Most of the rest of the rotors act as hinges and the other rotors and pistons we're just used to fine-tune the length of each leg segment. The geometry of the leg converts the circular motion of the one power rotor into a smooth walking motion.