After waiting for what seemed like an eternity my servos finally arrived in the post!! This has enabled me to put my Quad back together and start working on the gait programming. Here is a quick video to show what I’ve done so far.
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Quadru-Pet 1 – Part 4 – gait testMarch 23rd, 2010
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Quadru-Pet 1 – Part 3 – going analogDecember 2nd, 2009
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.
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Quadru-Pet 1 – Part 2 – it’s alive!November 4th, 2009
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 …
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Quadru-Pet 1 – Part 1 – the gutsOctober 5th, 2009
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 …
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