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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Bi-Pet 1 – Part 1 – first stepsFebruary 16th, 2010
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 …
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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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More RoomboticsOctober 6th, 2008
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?
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My inner nerdSeptember 28th, 2008
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 …
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