First quadrapod

My wife was looking through some video tapes, searching for something as irelevant as our wedding! To my happy surprise she found an old robot project of mine, my first QuadraPod!

Not much to say, 8 servos, sticks, testing & fun :) Made before LMR existed.

As I remember it was tuned to walk pretty OK, however it was always sot of dragging the legs, due to the way it was constructed.

Sort of walks on 4 legs

  • Actuators / output devices: 8 servos
  • Control method: none
  • CPU: picaxe 18
  • Operating system: Picaxe
  • Power source: 4 DD cells
  • Programming language: Picaxe basic
  • Sensors / input devices: none
  • Target environment: hard surface

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/first-quadrapod

Fritsl, You never cease to

Fritsl, You never cease to amaze me with the creative uses of even the simplest object to create something appearing rather complex.

Very inspirational.

And you say you’re not a techie…bah. lies I tell you… :slight_smile:

 

That’s pretty slick!
Got me think Gator or something like that. I gotta try a legbot of some sort sometime.

Hey Frits! Great bot!, And

Hey Frits! Great bot!, And as always the omnipresent paint sticks ! So what do you do when you want to paint something? And, were there bots at the wedding? Otherwise, why would she want to find it?

GroG
my robots
my garden

Whenever I go to the shops I

Whenever I go to the shops I grab some extra sticks. Have so many now, I consider start using them for heating purpose.

Regarding the wedding; The bot may possibly have overwritten it. That’s what she claims anyway.

ok one thing i realised in

ok one thing i realised in its quadraped not quadrapod. but then its read like… ah
very very cool robot. thats pretty awsome i would expect there to be an update with a turret atatched to it maybe?

very good robot! =)

a turret?
a paint gun turret!

quadraped… no not really

quadraped… no not really quadropod then? No! Well… as I wrote it then: Quadrapod! Yes!

:smiley:

oink
four legs good two legs bad

man thats good !

man thats good !

Great robot ! I am just
Great robot ! I am just planning (dreaming) to build 4-5 leg spider, this is a very good reference.

Cool!This old post might

Cool!

This old post might interest you then: https://www.robotshop.com/letsmakerobots/node/24

Very clever ! It shall be
Very clever ! It shall be useful when build robot when many legs.