I reached out on Freecycle asking for old unwanted battery-operated toy cars. Limpy is one of those cars, plus lots of hot glue and craft sticks and paperclips.
I used this Youtube video as a guide: https://youtu.be/HKKZyEMJOCU
Video of Limpy: https://youtu.be/20AGmSqZx4k
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/limpy-the-super-simple-walking-robot
It walks!
Freecycling is a great approach. To bring it all together, if you don’t have many machining tools available, take a look at polymorph to make a nice plastic frame:
https://www.robotshop.com/en/catalogsearch/result/?q=polymorph&order=stats_sales_order_count&dir=desc
Thanks!
I will look into polymorph, thank you! My husband is contemplating adding a 3D printer to our house, and my daughter and I tinkered with a “3D printing pen” toy at a Mini Maker Faire, so one of those might be added to our home as well. If only I could sew a robot frame…
