Hexapod

I've had quite a lot of free time recently so I decided to try and build a hexapod. Now I could have gone and bought a kit but that's cheating.

I've been drawing the design in adobe illustrator.

This first prototype was made out of 3mm pvc foamboard (also called sintra board). The bolts being used here are mainly m4 size and the servos are some cheap Accoms AS-17's that I got in bulk off ebay.

My plan was to use an arduino and the software servo library to control a total of 13 servos. That gives me 6x 2DOF (Degrees Of Freedom) legs and a panning head for the ultrasonic distance sensor that I mean to use. As it turns out that plan sucked but more on that in later posts.