Rideable Hexapod (aka spiderbot or hexabot or whatever). Anyway, I want.
Step A. KISS. Clone someone else’s work on a linkage hexapod.
~$ git clone git@instructables.com:Hexabot-Build-a-heavy-duty-six-legged-robot/
haha I wish hardware was as easy as software to duplicate.
Substeps:
- Acquire materials
- Steel stock
- Turner Steel (carpool with someone)
- 60 feet of 1″ square steel tubing, 0.065″ wall ~$72
- 20 feet of 2″ x 1″ square rectangular steel tubing, 0.065″ wall ~$37
- Directions
- (508) 583-7800 –inquire about cost for delivery to MIT, also hours
- Inquire from the Central Machine Shop, bldg 38-001
- Apply CAD (scale up, can motors handle? torque calcs?)
- Apply controller to motors (make original one? probably stick with relays)
- Learn welding (MIG or TIG)
- Build build build
Oh, right, youtube research: (specifically for this kind of linkage-based rideable hexapod)
Look it’s bicycle powered http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJY1fqzuqL0
Look it’s wheelchair motor x2 powered http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuRT9gC0CGs
in the meantime, I learned a bit of serial by asking Leighton, a hallmate, so now I understand the pololu code. But I still don’t understand why it’s sad. Yay I kept thinking it was something with the code, and I couldn’t find my cute tiny 2.007 battery to try . But I tried something I knew wouldn’t work, and it worked! yay. will post in pololu forums to make it more findable.
http://forum.pololu.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3944&p=19496#p19496