Photoshop designed SES Octopod

Lynxmotion Legged Robots
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if anyone is looking for a design for an Octopod i have processed one in photoshop!

img138.imageshack.us/img138/7489/spiderdt7.th.png
i dont have the money to build it, plus my wife would not only kill me for buying parts but she also hates spiders!
i did process a very simple code replicating the H3 codes but with the added limb. obiviously never tested it, plus the code doesnt exactly use the full potential of the design!
…enjoy!

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Hi!

Great! Its slim design makes the legs look longer and the body smaller. Yet a good example of the great potential for the SES brackets. (I just ordered a bunch of them… :wink: ).

There has been a lack of octopods so far…

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Does this mean we should be expecting an octopod version of the Phoenix?

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like the idea of am 8-legged phoenix. that would look excellent! - hint for Zenta!!!

i think the main reason why (octo’s) excuse the expression! aint really had much exposure is because they dont seem to improve or add anything more to the technology of walking robots. 6 legs seem to be best suited as a walking robot as we all know, but i also think if we look more closing at 8-legged robots i think we could learn an awlfull lot!

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i just found this link of (if you like) a phoenix octopod by Zenta.
grate work Zenta!!

youtube.com/watch?v=Nsw0TQOtbYU

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Hi!

For more information about my octopod visit my Oxyopus thread . But there was some design and servo issue I wasn’t pleased with. So I’m waiting for 8 HS5645MG servos (want to replace the cheap and noisy femur (HipV) servos) and I’m gonna redesign the hole body and the tibia part. Probably more Phoenix style.

I agree, an octopod are also more expensive and demands more power and calculations. But think about all the cool walking gaits you can do with 8 legs! I’ve tried to study a real life tarantula spider youtube.com/watch?v=TKWLWvc68Tc

But it is hard to figure out the exact gait pattern, because it tends to shift from one tetrapod pattern to another (alternating tetrapod).

Another real spider example:
youtube.com/watch?v=dwW6r7vruIo
Showing a desert tarantula walking faster, but it is a very good example for showing the gait pattern, mostly tetrapod I think :unamused: