The trickiest piece of this build seems to be turning a retired phone into the robot's control center, and the maker handled it neatly by leaning on a GitHub project called MakeYourPet, whose author published both a server and a client Android app to make the pairing work. Starting from an existing open project looks like a sensible way in for a first robot.
The structure itself is clean. The body was 3D printed, and the hexapod stands on six jointed legs, each moved by MG996R servos, with a central chassis that holds the electronics. The parts are done in black and dark red, and there are two circular openings at the front of the body. The finished robot sits on a laminate floor in the clips, which gives a good sense of its scale.
What the robot does is the fun part. It flexes its legs in place and sways its body from side to side, then walks toward the camera using an alternating gait while rotating slightly. One thing worth flagging: this is remote controlled, not autonomous, so a person is steering it rather than the robot deciding on its own.
The budget is another strong point. The whole build came in under $200, and that only held because the maker already owned the old Android phone, so the phone did the heavy lifting for the price. The maker calls it a good first robotics project to learn from, and the results back that up. The one open sore spot is that the maker felt the project was too limited by the app. The stated plan for the next hexapod is a Raspberry Pi with AI, face tracking, and ROS, which sounds like the natural way to push past that ceiling.