While waiting to save up for my new servos, I decided to put together this “BRAT” biped with parts from my Quad. Here is a video of his first steps …

You can probably see that I had to once again revert to using my trusty meccano for several parts -- namely the feet and the torso. I used two HITEC HS-645MG and one Tower Pro MG995 servos for each of his legs. The SSC32 was used as the controller which is tethered to my laptop to receive servo commands.

There probably won’t be much of a future for this little bot as I’ve just dismantled him so I can recover the bits for my Quad. However, if I ever come across any spare brackets and servos I think I’ll try using my Arduino to send a sequence of moves to the SSC32 instead of using the raw SSC32 sequencer to control him. After that would naturally come the sensors, AI and automation

For now, I hope you enjoy the funky video and the pictures in the gallery below …