Fantastic walker

steamer wrote in news:4641f69f$0$14133$ snipped-for-privacy@news.sonic.net:

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

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

Just a happy shopper. Bill K7NOM

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...

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. :-)

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.