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Carpentopod, a 12-legged walking wooden table that can serve drinks or snacks
- mnahkies 2y agoThat's pretty cool - reminds me of "the luggage" from Terry Pratchett's books in table form (https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Luggage https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Luggage)
- shiroiushi 2y agoIt reminds me of the book "Man of Two Worlds" by Frank Herbert and his son Brian. In it, some crazy inventor guy built his own car, but instead of wheels like any normal car, it had legged robots on each end that carried it. The inventor's son complained that this car was impractical as it couldn't travel as fast as a normal car.
- ok_dad 2y agoThe creator used a genetic algorithm to design the optimal leg mechanism for smoothness. The video is pretty cool: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xKDY4yWxfJM&e https://youtube.com/watch?v=xKDY4yWxfJM&e
- kleiba 2y agoThat's a video of the table walking. It would have been super interesting to see a video of the different steps of the optimization process as a 3D animation, but that's a bit too much to ask.
- GrumpyNl 2y agoMovement looks like the movement from wind powered sculptures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-NqWDH2qE&ab_channel=TheNewYorker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-NqWDH2qE&ab_channel=TheNe...
- grues-dinner 2y agoAs it indeed says in the second sentence. It's a modification of the design for smoother movement. Which seems to work well since that bottle stayed put.
- ramon156 2y agoCoincidentally, its another dutch man
- mijoharas 2y agoAh, I almost reposted this since i didn't see anyone reference Strandbeest's[0] which I believe is the name for them. [0] https://www.strandbeest.com/ https://www.strandbeest.com/
- grues-dinner 2y agoInteresting that it's made out of laminated bamboo. Often this kind of thing is plywood which is its own aesthetic but I think not as nice (and a nightmare if the plywood is big box store crap and not excellent quality). It's a great, dimensionally stable material but really a hassle to get hold of here in non-bulk quantities. I wanted some bamboo sheets for a knife rack and ended up buying table mats at retail and cutting them down.
- maxglute 2y agogreat parking job much more comprehensive write up from creator https://www.decarpentier.nl/carpentopod https://www.decarpentier.nl/carpentopod
- unwind 2y agoMeta: this was posted 2 weeks ago [1], with 50+ comments. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41491016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41491016
- croes 2y agoIt's the better link because it's the original source
- rsynnott 2y ago> Giliam de Carpentier Nice bit of nominative determinism, there.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoThat's really cool, I really appreciate how the legs are barely extending beyond the table itself. I wonder how much it could carry, whether it could also be a trunk (someone else already mentioned the Luggage), cabinet, or fridge. (The walk-ing fridge pun was already used in a beer advert)
- rightbyte 2y agoThat is a really interesting mechanism. So smooth. I looks like something retro-futuristic.
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