MSR-H01 Hexapod + PS2 + Balence Gesture

MSR-H01 Hexapod with new firmware featuring direct PS2 gamepad control and full 3D balance gesture. No Sound.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Hexapod
• Robot
• Computing
• Electronics
• micromagic
• denton
• MSR-H01
• HexEngine
• pbrain

[innerbreed]

been following your work for a long time, having said this i have been on the WebSite a number of times. must have missed it!

well keep up the good work matt.

oh i like the Phoenix look by the way!

[winchymatt]

The Phoenix design was influenced by my V4 & V4b hexapod (2003), which the MSR-H01 takes its design from.

cheers,

M@

[innerbreed]

hi matt, i emailed you a long while back about a hexapod i had and about how to impliment balance gesture. i was using the Atom-botboard-SSC-32 etc.

i see now you have also intergrated Lynxmotion to your robots and was wondering if you are sharing your code on the LM web forum?

great work once again matt. you always inspire me and the guys at LM!

Any quadruped Vids?

[winchymatt]

Hi,

There is no LM electronics on this robot! it is all micromagic ;)

It uses the p.Brain-HexEngine, I have not released code for this, but the engine is user configurable.

You can read more about it on the main robot site hexapodrobot(dot)com or the forum hexapodrobot(dot)com/forum

cheers

M@

[ECNasc84]

Awesome spider robot... Imagine your wife laying on her side in bed waking up to that thing standing in front of her face... You'd have to bring her orange juice and toast in bed for more than a week to make up for it..

[MrPrussianjester]

ant squisher 2000

[siflrock]

thanks for the nightmare

[edwarkler]

te quedo vergonisimo, talves algun dia pueda hacer uno de estos

[SkaetrPunk777]

oh... my... GOSH! that is so cool lol

[honeynutsandcheerios]

woah this vid is being extremely lagy but nice work dude.

[Noodle930]

The kit is £109.99, made from quality aluminum. Matt's controller is pretty cheap, getting up to about £100. The biggest cost is in servos. You can't just put in cheap servo's because they usually don't have the torque required for it to stand up. The cost of the bare minimum servo's, that is 6x HS-225BB, 6xHS-475HB and 6xHS-645MG accumulates to just under £340.

It does not come assembled. There is no assembly costs. But that wraps it up to about £540 for everything to be plug and play.

[theHippy86]

i believe the kit is $100-$200. 20 servos with a two axis head can cost $200-400 plus (you get what you pay with servos) and in robotics you want the best seems a little discrepancy can turn into a big discrepancy very easyly. then you'll spend about 250 on guts and batterys. So you save about $100 building it yourself. You could probly biuld one for $500 with cheap servos and aduino or parallax boards but then you may have a hard time translating the programming.

[MufinMcFlufin]

Well then, that might be a little out of my budget...

Does it really cost that much to make?

It doesn't seem like much. 3 motors per wheel (18 total), ultra sonic sensor, wireless control, and maybe a gyroscope? And of course many other things tucked neatly out of the way. Does it cost more for it's parts, or for it's assembly? My guess would be assembly, but I can't tell everything that's on it or what all of it's parts are made of (body, legs, etc.)

[theHippy86]

they are on the market, for $1000