Arduino hexapod robot, first test

Hexapod robot with simple 2DOF legs. Just very minimal autonomous wander + obstacle avoidance, controlled by a Boarduino (Arduino clone) and a single SRF05 sonar mounted on a servo motor.

All 13 servos are connected to two daisy-chained Pololu micro serial servo controllers.

The code is not very sophisticated at all, so this bot still bumps into things a lot and gets stuck in corridors.

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[SummerGameProject]

Amazing! How did you make the legs if I may ask? By the way, great job! I plan on learning Arduino and building a robot just like this very soon!

[iatneH]

@SummerGameProject

The legs were built from various Lynxmotion parts, this is a 2DOF design so each leg uses 1 multi-purpose bracket, 1 "C" bracket, 1 offset bracket, 1 tubing connector hub, 1 tubing, and 1 tubing rubber end cap. Additionally, 2DOF requires 2 servo motors. It's important to choose a motor with high torque or else it cannot support the robot's weight.

Lynxmotion parts are expensive, I got them from robotshop.ca but if you have the resources you can make your own. Good luck!

[alphaman1101]

oh wow. just when i though it was game over, it went foward and corrected itself. NICE

[iatneH]

Actually, it was game over, I just stopped the video so you wouldn't see, but the bot was pretty much stuck in that dead-end alley..!

[Ryuuken24]

I this idea, I've been trying to work on, but have too much to do, it's really simple if you already know how to program a robot, you need to make the robot map an area, like a memory bank of 64X64, it's sort of like making a map and storing it, but the robot needs to matrix the area, think of it as a signal distance measure, to do so it needs an stand alone EEPROM, just to make it easier on the read and write, less CPU processing too. It's real simple, I just don't have a robot.Have a nice day.

[iatneH]

I have not worked on the robot at all since I filmed this video... I was thinking of doing something like the map making, but I also do not have any accurate way of measuring odometric data, and scene reconstruction with a single sonar with such a wide beam will be tricky... maybe if I had infinite time ;)

[GeorgeBenettM1]

i'm sorry but he turn only to right?

[ahamedBacar]

hey do we can have the code source of your project ?

[TheRobotgeek123]

hmm robot d.j??

[TheRobotgeek123]

good music!! :)

[kyCap222]

i love the way it looks around as if to decide wich way it wants to go the there it gos

[AntsanParcher]

I like its rhythm

[JakariHanma]

Your name backwards is Hentai..

[chemy999]

Lol that's kinda cute. Good work