LEGO Hexapod

[anodizteam]

wow !! very smooth

[Icabobster]

Now just put a six-legged bison body on top! ;)

[shyla669]

great design. I think u need to add to there legs a bit tho. Right now it looks like it's on it's belly half the time

[wheelrider86]

taking cover every step

[ourhouse55]

is this lego power functions or mindstorms?

[eFFeeMMe]

@ourhouse55 It's just a few gears and levers, no need for Mindstorms. Any motor will do, the new Power Function ones are pretty lovely, I'd have used them if I had them when I made this hexapod.

[scotty4Him]

its so simple, yet so complex

[MoshiB9865]

WOW lovin the pro mechanics

[manifestman132]

Very cool.

[RichinGunz]

u should get a stronger motor

[SuperWizTech]

is it powered by 1 motor or 2? if its by 2 motors side by side just turn 1 side on and it should turn

[geekymgee]

try makking the main body and legs larger

then you might have room to use larger gears and make it go faster

then the militay might buy it and you get rich

[TheMrAnderz]

Please make a tutorial :) Nice video by the way ;P

[bmxari]

cool idea :D

[ProtonFilms]

The closest thing I made was a little car that drives around aimlessly and hits stuff...

[0YtsanBlowout0]

Id like to put that on my bro's back while hes slobering away in sleep!

[burf2000]

Can it turn? Do you think it could be made to turn?

[eFFeeMMe]

It can't turn, but it definitely could be made to turn. Just add a twistable segment between each pair of legs!

[brand1stylistic]

simple and effective, im gonna try speed this design up though :)

[eFFeeMMe]

Keep in mind that the batteries were almost drained when I made this video =p But still, yeah, its speed can be improved a lot. For example: even though it looks nice, bouncing up and down while taking every step wastes a lot of momentum.

[IllegalMavamaarten]

OMG this is amazing !

[Safhata]

you could use this system to make a moving AT-TE from the star wars sets ^^

[theoriginalJASONXYZ]

nice, you should make it flexible between the legs so it can turn.

[magemager0]

such a simple mechanism

[BulKathos84]

Nice idea to get the movement of simply turning gearwheels

[dbzhardcore]

That is just too sweet!

[bioniclealek789]

nice enginering

[jian2069]

neato

[dtoplak666]

omfg!!! such a simple concept but such a gr8 machine!!!

*gets out legos and vatches the video again

^^

[Aldawok12]

put a tail on it RAWR SCORPION

[WeFloatInSpace]

rofl. that thing looks crazy when it moves

[R08M]

Holy shit man!....soo sick!, what if you put a higher dear on the main driving shaft?....that would make it be like an overdrive crauler

[attpureownpk]

no even better direct drive !!!!! muhahahaha *no dont do its suicide!!!* i must it is my destiny!*it will kill you* i know!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

[kossell]

Wow.. can you tell me how many servo did u use?

[eFFeeMMe]

Two, but only one was really needed.

[kossell]

thanks, do you think any possibility to make it turn around? or may be any building instruction :D

[eFFeeMMe]

Well, the easiest way would be to make the two columns of legs indipendent, and make one go forward while the other goes backwards. Another easy way would be to rotate the body segments individually, even though the turning radius that way would be rather big. A more interesting way would be to orient the legs themselves. That's what I was working on before dropping the project and LEGO altogether, so no building instructions, sorry. But I plan to try building a turning version again soon =)

[kossell]

new turning version? niiicee :D make instruction pleaseee :P thanx for your replies, you are very cool

[tiki820]

brutal

[yannickio]

wooot

[maxdamage15]

wow the mythos from halo!!!!

[cheesybubbleslook]

wow, that must have been a pain to balance

[SINGLEslie]

awesome

[LarsPeter50]

COOL, but why does none use a remote control when they have gotten ALL other parts!?

[eFFeeMMe]

What do you mean? Yeah, I've got the new LEGO power functions pieces, but this video was made a long time ago...

[r2jdf]

you should post instructions that would be awsome

[Miktor]

Very fluid movement, but a bit low geared eh? :p

[eFFeeMMe]

Yep, and the batteries were almost deplenished =p

[eisenstaedtklein]

MAN that's awesome.

[Bausernameieimue]

good mecanism goood idea but 1 problem how about making it to turn im curentli building a hexapod thath can make 90 degres in 2 seconds

[eFFeeMMe]

Well, you can make one side move forwards and the other backwards, or maybe make body segments which can bend to the left or right. I also experimented with indipendent leg rotations but that didn't turn out too well.

[computermedic64]

Very cool! I read a comment you had a hard with this project due to the lack of ball joint type lego, check out mine, no ball joint in it, let me know what you think of it.

[eFFeeMMe]

My problem with the mechanism is not really in the vertical motion of the leg, but in the fact that it's also got to pivot on its own base. Ball joints would have greatly helped me in supplying motion to a leg in all its different positions. Apart from that, thanks for the tip, I really like your walker =)

[RoboHippo]

I am in awe...

[JMEMantzel]

Woo, sweet. I like it. simplicity is great. :-)

[Nightwaso]

WOWOWOW Great 2 motors only

[eFFeeMMe]

And one would be enough =)

[mojoeagle17]

Very cool =]

[JoeRush91]

it walks smoother then other lego hexapods that ive seen here :P nice

[Gomeriffic]

thats genius!

[stevootjee]

wow now that is smart!

[starwarslegokid]

Wow I love the Ingenuity!

[XPyroPhoenixX]

mabye upgrade to lynxmotion

[eFFeeMMe]

Hm? What is it?

[XPyroPhoenixX]

go to lynxmotion dot com they have tons of advanced robotic kits and they have several hexapods. but instead of using gears they use 3 servos per leg(18 total) to move the legs. not to mention the stuff they have is 100 times cooler than what lego offers.

[eFFeeMMe]

Oh. Thanks for mentioning those but I'm not really interested(although there are very fancy robots there). What I like about LEGO is the ease with which one can rearrange pieces to make a completely different creation, something that metallic robotics can't offer.

[XPyroPhoenixX]

also lego is alot cheaper and easier to program :)

[ponchato]

That is awesome.

[sharkonesega]

Grande! Lego Rules.

[RaZeRpWnZ]

Nice job!

[Limpfittz]

Clever.. make 8 legs ;)?

[mechanisma22]

thats an ingenius way to build a hexapod

[eFFeeMMe]

Thanks a lot ;)

[benjaminventura]

incredible.