I had to build a robot just to test a board...
I wanted a nice, simple 08m board to play with so I made one! It is not too shabby, if I do say so myself and quite handy for hexapods and the like. You can find this board here on the component page and here at Rocket Brand Studios.
I got the boards in, soldered on up and quickly discovered that I didn't have anything to control with this board. I set off to make a hexapod, my first one. I did some google imaging and found about a dozen examples of other's hexapods. I then sorta "averaged out" the designs and starting drawing mine up. A long night later, I hit "GO" on the laser cutter. It came out pretty well, and walks just like it should. In fact, I am happy enough with the first design that I plan to go ahead and finalize the design, and put the results in the form of a kit.
For now, enclosed are a few pictures and a late-night video of his first steps...
Enjoy.
(click on the picture below to go to the Picasa Album of the photos)
| Hexapod v1 Assembled |
Walks around
- Control method: autonomous
- CPU: PICAXE 08M2
- Power source: 4 AAA
- Programming language: Picaxe basic
- Sensors / input devices: HC-SR04
- Target environment: smooth surfaces
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/08m2-board-is-available-and-i-think-i-built-a-hexapod
