Hexabot - Six Legged Robot

This is my final project for my Making Things interactive class at Carnegie Mellon University. The project is a six legged robot, known as a hexabot. This design was largely based off of Micromagic System's Design (http://www.hexapodrobot.com) with a few modifications (mostly for the worst, seeing how this is my first attempt at something like this).

It was a fun project, the parts are all laser cut from acrylic plastic, the microcontroller I used is an Arduino Diecimila. The hexabot works by using 12 servo gears (2 per leg) to move about and it is controlled via a Wii Nunchuck.

Documentation:
http://mtifall09.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/final_report.pdf


Hope you all like it!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hexabot
• making things
• interactive
• carnegie
• mellon
• university
• robot
• wii
• nunchuck
• arduino
• micromagic

[FreebirdLegend]

is that a wiimote just wondering

[antwanio182]

@FreebirdLegend yep!

[faye11221992]

can sg5010 or mg995 be an alternative for hitec 425bb?

[Feedfront]

noise is killing me

[ikonsss]

what kind of joystick is that

[barcefever]

Hey man im doing a simulation for a six legged robot in matlab...well thats what my thesis is about...what books do you recommend for a newbie on the field of modelling specially when dealing with six legged robots...Thanks in advance :)

[raghunitin]

was that an arduino?

[bacchanalian87]

cool shit...

[sileniu]

Gj Dude this is so damn good!! 5*