Fantastic walker

You probably can't build one yourself for this price:

http://shopping.discovery.com/product-63504.html

Anyone near Sacramento that is building a medium sized robot? There is some
packaging equipment at Sunshine Steel (a scrap yard) that has a bunch of
gears,
shafts and DC motors that you may want to look at. I saw one DC motor
that was rated at
1/2 hp and 90 Volts. Too high a voltage for many but would be OK for a
machine tool.

Just a happy shopper.
Bill K7NOM

    --Oh yeah forgot about  that. I'm thinking it would be an
interesting battlebot if scaled up a bit, but I'd hate to do all that work
and then get it beat to crap in the arena.. Might be fun to make one big
enough to carry groceries in the supermarket or something weird like that,
heh.
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Now that's a spider!

I noticed there was a lot of serious foot pad to surface slip.
With the right serrated (saw-tooth like) rubber feet, it should do a lot
better. First proto I guess.

Don...



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Looks like the outside legs operate in pairs with one motor driving a set
with simple rotation.  That seemed to be the cause of the awkwardness when
turning around, but worked pretty good when going straight.  Still, pretty
awesome.  :-)