I present my tetrapod

Lynxmotion Legged Robots
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Hello,

I will like to present to you my quadruped. I’m using an Arduino Mega and a servo controller SSC 32.

I’m also writing a blog as I go along and I invite you to visit it. Hopefully you will find some useful information.

I have a couple of articles about Inverse Kinematics and I hope I will publish more interesting articles as I make progress. See link below to my blog:

marc-tetrapod.blogspot.co.uk/

I haven’t made all the mechanic parts yet and I’m using Hitec 311 servos on the tibia (not very strong) but it’s not too bad for now.

Just a small video of my tetrapod…

Thanks

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Looks very nice. I like the design. Seems to be a very common design people are following.
Nevertheless it looks great. Look forward to seeing it walk.

Share you photos to this post. :wink:

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Push-Up robot… :wink:
I want more…!

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Thanks a lot guys.

To tell you the truth I have full body movement. I mean all translations and rotations but is not walking yet. I think the walking is smoother if you add body movement. We will see…

I will try to write more posts in my blog ASAP and I also let you know here.

I want to re-design the mechanics and print the parts using my RepRap Huxley printer. But it’s all about finding the time.

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Looking forward to seeing it from different angles and walking.

“Tetrapod” or “Quadruped”? I guess technically neither since robots are not alive (yet).

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Technically the same thing. :wink:

“Footed” - “legged” but one wouldn’t use the term tetrapod often

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:smiley: Jeje. I did a bit (not much really) of research and at some point I came across with the word “Tetrapod” and it sound better to me and also it was a less used term so I adopt it.

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Yours might be a “Tetrapoduino” - if you create the term, you can see it propagate in Google (64 results right now, none of which are relevant).

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That’s actually a pretty cool 8) term. I may try to start using it :wink:

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Great job! Did you borrow code from this site or write your own? Just curious as I just started building a quad. I have the body and 2 legs complete. I have the PS2 Robot controller and a BotBoarduino controlling the SSC-32 Servo Controller. Looking at the code sample that Lynxmotion has for their quad. Keep us posted, would like to see how you make it walk.

Jerry