Here is a complete view of the Lynx209 robot.
6 DOF legs! All aluminum construction with ball bearings! It’s a class act. It weighs 2.4lbs without batteries. I think this would be an excellent afordable walker if it were built with 5475 servos and had the power and serial comms tethered. Just another way to do it I guess.
Now that looks very robust!
It’s a treat to see new stuff. Thanks Jim!
It looks terrific! 
When do you expect to have these new aluminum brackets (even if it isn’t a kit) available so we can start constructing with them too? 
Total Bad Ass !!! This platform looks nice and professional. I will definatly consider this on my next project!!! 
I have to say, the more I look at it the more I like it. I love the “machine” look to it!
Wowzers…
Please pardon the wetness, and watch your step…
I’m afraid I was salivating a bit.
Dost mine eye perchance to light upon metal servo fasteners?
I didn’t know you were selling those!
A check of the site confirms it, though.
(I’ve been secretly harboring a resentment towards all things plastic in nature.)
If I use those, the only plastic/nylon peices on my bot will be the servos, the low profile axis gears (they are plastic, right?), and the hex standoffs.
You don’t happen to have plans for more sizes of metal standoffs, eh?
By the way, if I cut the current aluminum ones to my size needs, am I going to find that they aren’t threaded all the way through?
Oh, I noticed that the picture doesn’t show him with those metal hubs that you were working on.
How are those going?
Beth is adding the brackets to the website today. There are a lot of them to add, but she’s pretty fast. There is a fair amount of work after that to make them available to purchase. They should be available for purchase early next week. Were going as fast as we can.
Yeah the rivot fasteners are great for most applications, but after I’m done experimenting with design ideas, I pull um and build with the 3mm hardware. It does make for a more rigid assembly. For smaller assemblies they rock, but full size bipeds and arms, I go to steel hardware.
The Low Profile Axis uses gears made from Acetel. They are much stronger than these projects require. I am not currently looking into aluminum standoffs. This may change when I get the current onslaught of new brackets a little more under control. The 1-7/8" standoffs are tapped to 7/16" special order… No standoff that I am aware of is tapped all the way through. The Hitec servo horns are still in production. No promise date yet. Should be pretty soon though.
Thanks for the update!
It all sounds great.
I can see no rush in deciding about the standoffs, since the nylon ones are rather durable, especially when using many of them.
I’m just one of those people that can’t leave well enough alone (a.k.a. anal-retentive).
I’m in the midle of my 209 project.
will there be asb-15, asb-17 & asb-02 “in black”?
Robert.
Uh, Jim?
What’s the Aluminum Servo Offset Axis Bracket Single Pack (ASB-16B) for?
I can’t seem to see it on the 209.
Not all of the new brackets are intended to be used in the 209 project in my understanding. The offset bracket is one that apparently is not.
Actually, I’m having a tough time figuring out a project that bracket could be used for. It seeems like the extended offset segment would get in the way of the full motion of a bracket attached to the servo in the ASB-04 holder… I don’t know, it would be interesting to hear what Jim had in mind for that bracket.
It can be used to add a wrist rotate for an arm. It can also be used for bicep rotate on a Humanoid Biped are instead of the ASB-04 to ASB-04 as is used on my examples. It would lengthen the arms which some have expressed interest in as well.
Yes, they are ariving this week from the anodizer.
Oh, I like the sound of extending those arms, Jim.
But, at the expense of losing our little pal’s huge “muscles”?
No way, I say!
Robot dude you guys are killing me here, my projects are on hold till the new brackets are in stock. 
Sorry for the delays. You should start seeing them trickle in as “In Stock” today, and tomorrow. It has taken a lot longer then I though it would. Very sorry.
I know this topic is old, but could the 5475 servo’s actually support the weight of this beast? All I’ve heard about them is that they’re fairly weak servo’s with gear slip problems.
Would the HS-5645’s even be enough, or would the movements be jittery and jerky?
I want to build the 209, but it will take me a while to save up for the servo’s regardless. How would it perform?
We made the Scout available with 5475 servos as a minimum requirement. We state it’s recommended to tether power to the robot. So, no it’s not going to support the weight of whats required to make the bot operate untethered. The 5475 doesn’t have gear slip problems. I’m not even sure what that really means. Gears either work or they break. How could a gear slip. 
The bipeds made with 5645 servos are very capable. They don’t have any jitter problems.
I believe the key point in using 5475 servos for the 209 biped is/was that power and communications are tethered so there is no weight from batteries (in particular). If you were to use a pair of batteries, ideally Li-ion polymer, located on the feet or lower legs (there is a picture on the forum where someone has already done this, somewhere) it is possible you may have enough power to walk as you only need to lift one pack at a time and the servos are not required to carry the weight while standing still.
edit: lol, Jim beat me to it. 8)
