The small body footprint of the initial design was causing me problems – namely the coxa joints were too close together limiting servo movement. I’ve decided to use a piece of trusty meccano to serve as a new body until I can afford to get a custom aluminium body cut for me.
This is a quick video to show progress on my Quadruped Q-P1. My SES chassis arrived today 
Spent a few hours figuring out the best configuration and went ahead and built it up. Just added the servos and electronics to the chassis and this video demostrates the first power on test with some up and down movement and a drunken walk …
Short video showing the first part of my project to build an autonomous Quadruped robot. I converted the Phoenix Hexapod code to work with the Arduino development board and SSC-32 servo controller from LynxMotion. Only electronics and servos so far …
Another weekend passed and another few days of time well spent doing anything other than what I really need to be doing three weeks before I go on my big hol … oh well … robots are cool so it’s all good right?
This last few weeks I have been mainly going robot crazy. First off, I finished Asimov’s second ‘Elijah Bailey’ robot book: The Naked Sun. It was great … as are all his books! Then I watched I-Robot and Iron-Man, and it got me thinking …