Having created several robots that roll on wheels of various kinds, we decided to build a robot that walks, or more accurately, crawls, in a spider-like fashion. We call him Crawler. We control this robot using a PS/2 remote control. Each leg has three Degrees of Freedom (DOF) so his gate and other movements are very creepy and biological. To create Crawler’s head, we hacked into a PS/2 receiver and installed the red receiver lights (LEDs) so that it looks like he has glowing eyes.
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Technical Details
- Servos: 12 Hitec HS-645, 6 HS-485
- Remote Control: PS/2
- Batteries: NiMH & NiCad
- Legs and body pieces: Lynxmotion, black anodized aluminum
- MicroController: Bot Board/SSC-32
Wow, that thing is amazing! That has to be one of the coolest robots I’ve ever seen, incredible work.
Hm, must be kind of frustrating to write such a post and still get cmetonms on bypassing’ the robots.txt or a robots.txt protected’ folder Good Luck anyhow on your educational efforts.
Your story and robots are truly inspiring to me. I am most certainly going to plagiarize some of your ideas as I learn more about robotics and build my own, I hope you don’t mind!
Amazing, I’v read books about robots like that use “the tripod gait” but never moving indivual legs