Brabeast Electric

I was interested in making a machine similar to one of Theo Jansen's Strandbeest machines. I soon found one called Brabeast here on Thingiverse and started to work on printing and building it. However the usual wind driven fan mechanism never looked promising. The teeth of the planetary gear were too small and I knew this would mean they'd have fine tolerances and probably wouldn't work well in 3D printed form. I also figured I'd need a hurricane to make the machine walk. So I worked on making an electric motor driven Brabeast.

The final result is essentially just the original Brabeast by Gyrobot combined with the oversized crank sections of Vivifyer. However I have redesigned the crankshaft parts slightly so they fit together better, and I also added three new parts - a motor mount on each end of the Brabeast, and a "cargo deck", so the Brabeast can carry some small items such as the battery compartment. I used geared motors with a 10rpm output shaft so that the Brabeast walk