Grettings everyone! After doing a lot of research over the past several months on components and such for a robot and what to build, I have finally settled on my project. It will be a true Octabot, in that it will have 8 legs on an octagonal chassis. Actually, it will be a bit …

Here are two views of the steerable wheels I plan to use on the all wheel drive independent steering system for the Octabot. http://www.thedynaplex.org/robotics/rovers/img/wheel-tower.jpg

wow, that looks realy neat!!! I am wondering if it is going to put too much presure on the L bracket, I know that it is realy strong but if you put a lot weight maybe it could bend… I am not sure. Its a real nice desing giving you alot of possibilties, with stronger servos, mayb…

Thanks. :slight_smile: I have been wondering about the stresses on the various parts als, particularly the “L” brackets. I’ve seen them used in many assemblies the same way I am using them, so there should not be a problem with stress. Thanks again. :slight_smile: I am alrea…

Here is a new steerable wheel I designed. My goal for this design has been to get the center of the wheel as closely to centered under the steering servo as possible. With the wheel as close to centered under the steering servo, the drag when steering the wheel will be reduced gr…

I am ressurrecting this project, but am taking it in a slightly different direction. I’ll still eventually be building the large Hybrid Octapod with the four wheel drive system, but that will have to wait for a bit. Building my first Octapod this way will let me ease into it soo…

Yes, I did. I can hide the various planes and axis. :slight_smile: Thanks. :smiley: Here is a picture of it with all legs down, in walking mode from the front. I think it looks pretty impressive. :smiley: I have since shortened the two front legs a bit by removing the AHC-0…

One suggestion with the renderings: Can you make the background a dark color? Black would probably be to dark for the servos to show up. Perhaps a dark navy blue? this will be easier on the eyes when looking at your design images. I wish I could modle like you do. It would make…

I will look into doing this. I can always change the backgound for taking snapshots and then put it back to what I use when modeling stuff. I have only been doing 3D CAD for a couple months now, so I am a newbie to all this. It’s all a matter of having good software and suppo…

Wow, that sounds like a CAD program that is worth getting. The training CDs alone is a good selling point.

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sn96 October 10, 2006, 2:24pm 41

Looks like you figured out how to turn off the blue boxes in your images.

The design looks very nice.