IRIS login | Reed College home Volume 92, No. 1: March 2013
Tags
"dxoxtxux"
The Belly of the Beest
The spirit of invention is alive and kicking--or at least creeping.
A band of ingenious Reedies has pulled off a engineering triumph known as the Beest, a wheelless vehicle with twelve articulated legs, which scuttles across the floor of the SU like a gargantuan headless spider.
Inspired by Danish sculptor Theo Jansen and his exotic StrandBeest, David Lansdowne '09, Michael Page '10, and their co-conspirators in the student group DxOxTxUx (Defenders of the Universe) bolted their Beest together out of particleboard and two-by-fours. Here David shows editor Chris Lydgate '90 how the creature works--and walks.
Continue reading The Belly of the Beest
- The Turning of the Thesis
- Looking back, thinking ahead, loving Reed
- Davis Winner Hatches Scholarship Plan
- Celebrating “4/20” At Reed
- The Perfect Dinner
- Occupying Wall St--From the Inside Out
- Farewell Professor Rhyne
- Reedies Hold Union on Student Autonomy
- Memorial for Professor Emeritus Steve Arch
- Watson Winner Will Go to Africa
- RIP Professor Steve Arch
- March Madness at Reed—Yes, Reed
- How Do We Define Reed in the 21st Century?
- Educating Women Steadies the World
- Lena's Paintings on Display
- Memorial for Ottomar
- Beyond Paideia
- March Gets RAW
- Reed Takes to the Road in Seattle
- Paideia Pandemonium
Reed Blogs
- Reed College Blogs
- Voices from Reed
- The Riffin' Griffin
- Chemistry News
- Reed Early Voting Info Center
- Politika
- Reed Linguistics
- SEEDS
- Reed Res Life
Reed Alumni Blogs
- Caroline Miller ’59
- Barbara Riddle-Dvorak ’64
- Peter Ash ’66
- Joanne D'Antonio ’67
- Howard Rheingold ’68
- Tim Patterson ’68
- Gerson Robboy ’69
- Tamim Ansary ’70
- Sibylle Hechtel ’72
- Karen Greenbaum-Maya ’73
- Willa Goodfellow ’75
- Jon Bethune ’77
- John Hedtke ’77
- Charles Krakoff ’78
- Maggie Rudy ’80
- Martha Nichols ’80
- Mira Kamdar ’80
- Lisa Dale Norton ’80
- Greta (Muelder) Christina ’83
- Tim Flanagan ’87
- Marty Smith ’88
- Paul Knoepfler ’89
- Matt Giger ’89
- Noah Iliinsky ’95
- Brandon Barnett ’95
- Francisco Toro ’97
- Karen Leibowitz ’99
- Brett Sills ’01
- Alex Dickow ’02
- Nick Blake ’03
- Noah Brand ’05
- Josey Rose Lee ’06
- Julie Pachico ’08
- Rebecca Kreston’07
- Arianne Rivard ’10
- David Azrael '12 and Ned Carson '12
- Taylor Thompson '12 and David Azrael '12