Watch How 18 Servos Bring This Creepy Hexapod to Life
Lotfi has only been “making things” for a year, but already he’s made this amazing 3D printed hexapod that walks like an insect.
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Multi-mode Hexapod Switches Instantly Between Rollerskating and Walking Locomotion
Dog-size insectoid robot features anodized aluminum frame, inline skate wheels.
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Hexcopter Drone Platform Kit on Kickstarter (UPDATED)
UPDATE (1/26/2012 2:56 pm Pacific: Kickstarter funding for the eye3 project was canceled by the project creator. UPDATE: Since posting this, I’ve received a number of emails about this Kickstarter project and Lumenlab, the company behind it. Some people have complained that they have placed large orders for Lumenlab kits but have not received them. […]
Continue ReadingAwesome Hexapod Packs an LED Matrix
SAMSA is based on the Wiring board, with an ATmega128 microcontroller, and SAMSA II on the Arduino Mega, with an ATmega1280. Both are pretty similar, tough the ATmega1280 has 8 KB SRAM, twice the ATmega128. For SAMSA II the Arduino IDE was not used. The software was written directly in C++, using some libraries from […]
Continue ReadingHexapod Dance-Off
Check out this video from the 5th Annual Austrian Hexapod Dance-Off. The Hexapod moves are sure expressive.
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Gallery of multileggged misnomerbots
Wired just posted a gallery of multipod robots which is, somewhat embarrassingly, headlined with “Robo Spiders,” in spite of the fact that almost all of them are hexapods. Looks like somebody over there needs a robobiologist to help them distinguish roboinsects from roboarachnids. Still, interesting browsing for the robophilic. Shown above is a rendering of an evil military spy-derbot that UK defense giant BAE Systems will probably never actually build.
Continue ReadingiHexi iPhone controlled Hexapod robot
In this video robotics student Robert Stephenson demonstrates an iPhone app he wrote to wirelessly control his Hexapod robot.
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