retrointerfacing

- connecting past and future -

18-servo walker

with 3 comments

New A4 flat-kit design: a 18-servo 6-legged hexapod. It does not walk (yet) but servo control works and the mechanics look good:

r0013970

All parts can be cut from a single A4 sheet of acrylic glass. Other parts include 18 miniature servo’s (selling for 5EUR as TopLine mini-servo ES-05 JR (at Conrad Electronic)) and an ottantotto board

r0013969

The servo’s are controlled using a simple soft-servo library (for the timebeing) which can be found here.

Written by edwin

August 22nd, 2010 at 8:53 pm

Posted in Arduino, Robotics, fablab, fabrication

Tagged with

« Standalone dial-a-song
Repstrap using HP840c’s »

3 Responses to '18-servo walker'

Subscribe to comments with RSS or TrackBack to '18-servo walker'.

  1. [...] two servo robot. The new design (pictured above and to the right) is more ambitious, utilizing 18 servos. One nice aspect of both designs is the flat parts have been made to fit on one A4 sized piece of [...]

    Fab6, Part 2 « Next Fab Studio

    27 Aug 10 at 2:37 am

  2. Where can I get a copy of the A4 Parts layout so I can get them cut out on my router?

    Please get back to me asap.

    Cheers

    Dan

    15 Sep 10 at 2:57 am

  3. I posted all the design files on http://wiki.edwindertien.nl/doku.php?id=a4designs:hexapod:start Good luck! Software is only rudimentary (soft control of 18 servo’s) but with the help of http://www.lynxmotion.com/images/html/proj098.htm it should be possible :)

    edwin

    20 Sep 10 at 2:28 pm

Leave a Reply