Engineering

I have a soft spot for seemingly needlessly complicated (at least initially) mechanical designs that on further examination reveal an human’s desire to simplify its architecture to its essence

I first heard about Theo Jansen's Strandbeest from a WIRED article, in 2005. https://www.wired.com/2005/01/wild-things-are-on-the-beach/

creating and destroying; flying cars, jet engines, roc.camera, july.rocks /faust

https://warpcast.com/vrypan.eth/0xa03dd231

May I ask What’s the most needlessly intricate yet elegant contraption you’ve come across?

This is how I feel about old camera mechanisms. So extra. So efficient