This is my entry to the Grant Imahara Vexplorer Robot Challenge. The entry is a two legged walking robot design. Contest can be found at http://www.botmag.com/articles/contest.shtml
Yeah, it is slow (but is made 4ft in the vid!). This is due to the principle used to walk. The principle requires a lot of torque, as the body of the bot is being raised be pulling the two legs together. The vexplorer motors are very low torque motors, so I used a worm gear mechanism to gear the motors down, which translates to a slow robot.
yawn 1 week later 1 inch farther
really slow
Yourmom1926 3 years ago
Yeah, it is slow (but is made 4ft in the vid!). This is due to the principle used to walk. The principle requires a lot of torque, as the body of the bot is being raised be pulling the two legs together. The vexplorer motors are very low torque motors, so I used a worm gear mechanism to gear the motors down, which translates to a slow robot.
BrikBot 3 years ago