Recent Blogs
TrotBot Leg Linkage: Walking Animation and Clearance Comparison
Watch a fixed-geometry TrotBot leg and its foot and toe paths. Compare entered joint-clearance sums separately; these values do not predict foot-position error.
Ghassaei Walking Linkage: Foot-Path Animation and Calculator
Follow Amanda Ghassaei’s crank-driven leg geometry and calculate its scaled foot-path width, lift, fixed-pivot spacing and cycle time.
Chebyshev Plantigrade Machine: How This Walking Linkage Works, Parts, Formula, and Uses Explained
Explore four Chebyshev linkages driving two alternating foot frames. Calculate foot sweep, lift and the small height variation along the approximately level stance path.
Theo Jansen Strandbeest: Reference-dimension Scaling
Scale three published Jansen reference dimensions from a chosen crank length and calculate an entered percentage band. The tool does not simulate a walking leg.
Jansen’s Linkage: Walking Animation and Foot-Path Calculator
Explore a Jansen walking leg with fixed-length links. Compare foot-path width and vertical excursion, change crank radius, and view two legs at different phases.
Klann Linkage: Walking Animation and Foot-Path Calculator
Follow a Klann leg through its calculated foot path. Scale the patent geometry by crank radius and compare cycle time with an assumed body advance.