Brian writes in –
I built this a few years ago. I had seen all the nice hexapod kits from lynxmotion. I figured I could do the same thing, but for less money. So I got 12 servos, an OOPic microcontroller (www.oopic.com), and a bunch of basswood from the local hobby shop. I had just started my “maker” lifestyle, and I didn’t have a lot of tools. But I set out to make my own walker with a hobby knife saw, a rotary tool, a few screw drivers, some wire, and an old, OLD 120Hz laptop. A few nights later, my walker was walking. I had a controller with forward, reverse, left, right, and a programmable “dance” button.
The robot had a good life as a demo robot at a few FIRST robots events, as little kids loved to make it walk and dance. But eventually it got old, and I harvested the servos. But this little wooden robot got me walking down the path of a maker – I’m just about finished refurbishing a FREE (but dead) Emco F1 CNC mill for my home shop, which will go nicely next to the mini lathe. I hope to start documenting more of my projects on Instructables…
Hexipod 3 – Link.
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A free mill! lucky son of a…
120Hz? That is an old laptop… :D
I have a stinkpad P90 with 32meg I was using as a webserver. ;)
There are no instructions on the link, just a flicr link.
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120 *HZ* not MHz ;)
never mind i was just playing the smartarse… :)
Oh… crap. MHz. 120 MHz. You get the idea.
I made that little robot 7 years ago. I still have the code for it, if you are interested. Just let me know.