I appreciate the feedback. I also am not terribly excited about the look of the single pane leg part. Itâs a 0.09" thick part which should be stronger than the same part made from 0.18" polycarbonate. (I have found that aluminum is stronger than an equivalent polycarbonate part that is double the thickness.) Iâm not done experimenting with this yet. The goal is to make it all aluminum / injection molded, and look better too. The SES does need a good 2DOF mechanical advantage leg as well.
I Still think the Lynxmotion logo needs to chnage colors; from Yellow outline to aluminum! 8)
Show me⊠
Uh oh⊠the glove is down⊠
Youâre in beeeeg twubble now. 
He knows you can do cool graphicsâŠ
8-Dale
Ummmmmmm⊠Gulp!
Youâre ON! 
I have noticed this as well when I tried getting stuff in blue or yellow. So, I guess the basic robot color is going to be black except where I can inject a bit of color into it. Black does look a bit more dangerousâŠ
8-Dale
While not necessarily revolutionary I have been experimenting with the tibia on this prototype 2DOF hexapod. There is a spring that allows the tip if the tibia to float while the hex is walking. The middle leg takes the brunt of the floating when the hex is walking forward, but the fore and aft tibias do more floating when the hex is turning in place.
The tibia needs to be made from aluminum, and I need to decide if the femur will be two plates or just the one. Trying to keep the costs down.
The chassis is now aluminumâŠ
Here is an image of the bot.
Here is a closeup of the leg.
Here is the chassis with the optional side panels.
WOW Jim, I love the one with the Optional Side panels. When would these be available?
Love it Jim.
I used to have the original hexapod 1, quadrapod, and hexapod 2 PE⊠but those got stolen a few years back along with a bunch of my stuff! Coulda been collector editions! Iâll miss the yellow plastic look, but overall I think the aluminum designs are much more practical.
Iâm sorry, it looks to good. youâre gona hafta re-do it.
Are those Lynx made spring shocks?
Iâll bet they are! If you look closely, You can see the lexan.
The shocks are made from laser cut lexan. I may have them injection molded. I dunno yet. Itâs getting closerâŠ
Put the CH3-R legs on this for a new 3DOF inline hexapod. 
It would be (and look) wickedly cool!
8-Dale
Nah. Leave it the way it is. It looks cool already.
I think Jim saw my Johnny 5 mods and got âShock Envyâ
I think you made Jim âa little bit shock-n-rollâ
That shock on the J5 was a real shocker to see, I was quite shocked!
Hey wait a secondâŠ
Aside from my J5, I also had a suspiciously similar idea in Highschool! Proof is even posted on my project pages:
lynxmotion.com/images/html/proj029.htm
lynxmotion.com/images/html/proj037.htm
I demand royalties Jim!! rofl
You have some good ideas there! I can see some possibilities for adding contact and force sensors to a foot like that.
Hey Alan, are you listening??
8-Dale
Hi Dale,
Whatâs that? Let me turn up the volume a littleâŠ
Yeah, thatâs a foot alright! A little compliance in a leg wouldnât hurt. Pad size is about right for a pressure or capacitive sensor as well.
I donât quite see the function of the linkage on the new 2DOF 'bot (other then transfer of motion). Is it to provide some sort of âsoftâ linkage to the servo? The âCrust Critterâ or some such 'bot was complaining about that, I think I read.
OK ready to copy. Iâm just wondering whether or not to take time to check out the touch sensor chips I found. Iâll need to make up a little PCB with a PIC and the QT1081 8-KEY QTouch Sensor IC. Also need to have your I2C interface working! ;>)
It actually looks like a minimal mod to my aluminum tibia to incorporate this touch sensor. It could probably work with ANY of the tibia designs, as an after-sale mod.
I think Iâm going to need a couple of Schmart boards (both QT and PIC are SMT). Iâve got a circuit design and the firmware already in mind.
When and if to work on it is the question!
Alan KM6VV