Another Hexapod - a little different setup

Hello all,

As the title says this is another hexapod project. A little different from some of the others. I have lurked here for sometime but finally have a little time to actually get things going.

Before starting out I would like to thank Kurte, for answering a couple PM’s. Good decent communication, without the attitude I have seen of a few other boards.

The server controller is a Devantech SD21
An Arduino Mega 2560 is the brains
I have a R/C castle creations 20 Amp BEC to provide power to everything
Currently a 2100 MAH Lipo provides power
2.4 Gig r/c controller and receiver for user control - hope to have autonomous abilities this year.

I am just a wee bit closer to 100 than 0 so this is strictly being done for my own (and the cats ) amusement.

I am converting the code below to arduino because I am interested in his solution.

lynxmotion.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8033

The servo control routines have been written and tested and work well.

For those interested the SD 21 provides both positioning and speed control, via the IC2 interface.

I can post code for those interested, but I have written a couple basic routines: stand, park and simple loop walk in slow motion.

Now I am getting into actually having things controlled via R/C inputs so it ramble about at various speeds.

The autonomous coding is initially being performed on a stripped down R/C tank - far more durable when the code fails and it crashes into things- as it has done.

Hopefully I can contribute something of use at some point.