Hello I'm new to this robot building hobby , my main interest in humanoid bots . I would like to build a bot for the Kung fu event in the robo games in 2017 or maybe 2018 be pending on my robot progress. I plan to start out with a few kits like the robots kits with wheels and then when I feel I'm ready get a hexpod bot kit and just working my way up to the humanoid bot .right now I just want to know what I want to know is what do I need to know is what would I need to build the bot for the Kong fu event .
Hexapods don’t have balance problems, they are stable as a 4 wheel robot. A intermediate step for a humanoid robot could be a 2 wheels balancing robot. Trying to build one will teach you where to place components to have greater balance and how to deal with gyro and accellerometers. Then a humanoid robot can be tought as a self balancing robot that uses legs instead of wheels, but the high level logic is the same: push in the opposite direction of the falling pull. To keep things easy start small.
