A Servo-based 4-legged Walker
Build your own (needlessly tech) servomotor-driven 4-leg walker robot!First, a warning: This bot is basically a microcontroller-brain version of the classic BEAM 4-legged walker. The BEAM 4-legger may be easier for you to make if you aren't already set up for microcontroller programming and just want to build a walker.
On the other hand, if you're getting started with microprocessor programming and have a couple servos kicking around, this here's your ideal project! You get to play with walker mechanics without having to worry about the fussy analog BEAM microcore tweaking.
So although this isn't really a BEAM bot, the following two webpages are great resources for any 4-legged walker:
Bram van Zoelen's 4-legged walker tutorial has a good overview of the mechanics and theory.
I took my leg design off his website.
Chiu-Yuan Fang's walker site is also pretty good for BEAM stuff and some more-advanced walker designs.
Done reading? Ready to get building?
By: The Real Elliot Source: explore
specky Said:
on December 11, 2007 at 6:13 am
This is an awesome project. Simple and interesting.