Hexapod Walker

The Hexapod Walker is a six legged LEGO NXT robot walker. It uses a gait that causes very little slippage at the feet so can walk well with rubber tipped feet all the way around. The left and right motors control their respective sides corner legs. The motor in theback controls the middle set of legs so that either left or right corner legs can be lifted. When left middle goes down, left corner legs go up and right middle goes up.

First program just walks in a simple pattern. The second program was for a walking robot race and uses the small LED lights as navigation aids. Light sensor, mounted in the back but looks forward, sees the light and with every step adjusts step size to aim for light.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• LEGO
• NXT
• Hexapod
• Walker
• robot

[TomDOW2]

WOW how did you do this: i thought that to get that kind of movement you would need 2 servos per leg?

[GusJanss]

@TomDOW2 If you look carefully you will see that I only use three motors. One motor controls the left corner legs in a forward backwards movement and another controls the right corner legs. The middle legs are connected and only rock up and down and are controlled by the third motor. When that motor goes down on the left side, the left corner legs go up along with the right middle leg so only three feet are touching.

[Presentfactory]

Any way you could get instructions?

[Garone1998]

very fast

[arcanemettles]

Cool!

[Circuspantsman]

Wow nice hexapod. I would be very interested in obtaining a LDD file. Is that possible?

[bazmarc]

wow, i got to build this, would make a nice base for my "owls moving castle" project

[gnudlibba]

awesome xDD

[MennoGorter]

Indeed; impressive is the right word! ;-)