"Spidy" the spider robot

"Spidy" the spider robot.

A bunch of people have built these. After my having seen them I had to make one too!  :-)

Spidy is a Start Here type robot. Otherwise known as an object avoider. It uses 2 spider chassis from DF Robot snapped together into one. Then it uses my favorite Freescale micro controller and a Sharp IR sensor for object detection.

UPDATE

I have been asked numerous times on how to build this chassis after posting it on here.

Directions:
You simply buy 2 of these kits, then build one with left legs only, then build the other with right legs only, then slightly trim the X members on the end between the 2 leg halfs, then snap them together to make 1 chassis. The image of the robots underside shows all you need to know. Because when you have the kits in hand you will see that they literally snap together. So making this chassis out of 2 of them is VERY common sense, and easy.

Front View

Back View

Bottom View

Thanks for viewing, sorry for the crappy pictures as my camera broke, so these are video screen shots!

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