ignoblegnome

Nice work. How does it seem

Nice work. How does it seem to work in action? Any chance of a video?

Maybe you could use a section of PVC pipe of an appropriate diameter as a form to mold the polymorph around. Or, perhaps just use a thin slice of PVC pipe with a segment cut out as your whegs instead of having to mold it. It would be strong and easily repeatable.

 

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robodude95

Hey ignoble,I haven’t

Hey ignoble,

I haven’t reached the point to have a walking test yet :D. Just running the legs individually right now by setting the encoders to interrupts and calculating the rpm value from that. I should have a video up of the leg tests by next week. 

The first plan of work would be getting better Whegs!! :D  I will defiintely try getting a PVC pipe mold. I had tried to make something like RoverX with polymorph but then just went with the C shaped one.

cbenson Regular

Rhex

Nicely done - I remember the Rhex project at McGill - one of the student projects at the time was to make an inexpensive version of the RHex and I think you have them beat!

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robodude95

Thanks for the kind words

Thanks for the kind words Cbenson.

Still a long way to get this robot working well enough. Do you have a link to the project? I’d love to have a look!

silux

try 3d printing legs

Check on 3dhubs if there is a printer near you.

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robodude95

Hey Silux,That site was

Hey Silux,

That site was really useful. I found some good printing hubs in my city I didn’t know of but they’re a bit costly :D. For now I’ll try it with the polymorph but incase it proves to be the wrong material forthe job I’ll go with the 3D printing. Thanks for the link!

Cheers!