Octobot spider robot

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This is my latest robot named Octobot. It was designed entirely with CAD (Solidworks). Most of the parts were 3D printed. The 8 legged spider robot is controlled by a smartphone using Bluetooth LE. The control board is the Romeo BLE bluetooth and motor controller board from DF Robot. The robot uses only 2 geared DC motors. Each motor drives a set of 4 legs on each side. Will be adding some other sensors and using this robot to experiment with spider AI.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/octobot-spider-robot
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Thanks for sharing! I liked

Thanks for sharing! 

I liked very much that mechanism for the legs, with gears and linkages. Very inspiring.

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Creative Design

First off, the design really shows the advantages to having a personal 3D printer - it looks well made. Second, nice use of gearing for the legs - K.I.S.S. works well and really keeps the cost down.

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Love it, really cool mechanism.
Are there any chances of getting the .stl files to make a copy to play around with?

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I really liked your work, will you copy them?

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This six-legged robot fascinated me!