{"id":71,"date":"2012-06-27T07:58:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T07:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2012-07-30T07:14:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T07:14:01","slug":"simple-hexapod-project-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Simple Hexapod Project &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So aside from the hush hush projects, I&#8217;ve recently picked up a new project on the side that I can talk about \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This project has been started at Nullspace Labs working along with charliex and mmca.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted an army of loyal robots to follow me around.. what better than a 6 legged crawler!<\/p>\n<p>The goal has been to create a new and simple hexapod design that can be easily laser cut and assembled in one night. Oddly enough I&#8217;ve been CAD and rebuilding one each night at NSL. The process from design, to cad, to laser cut and assembled can take about 4-5 hours.. which is just mind blowing fast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a shot of the original design from CAD to real life prototype:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"hexproto\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8003\/7453112150_c941362c1d_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s crazy to see it come together so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the prototypes design has several flaws.. For example the joints are very wobbly. So to help this I fit the servo mount into the acrylic body to make a tight fit. Then I brought the boards closer together to decrease the bending at the joints.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"hexaa\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8146\/7453110994_0d266e1d88_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So with the design slightly improved I&#8217;m going to move on to making a much more sturdy base. The base is currently the most wobbly part. Once the base is fixed up I&#8217;ll be ready to add the electronics \/ servo controller. Lots to do, but I figured I&#8217;ll give a quick peak at one of the things I&#8217;ve been working on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gonna keep on prototyping.. more to come! I&#8217;ll post CAD files when the design isn&#8217;t changing every 5 minutes \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"hexfamily\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7256\/7453110244_b79d24744f_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New CAD:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/new_hexa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-74\" title=\"new_hexa\" src=\"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/new_hexa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/new_hexa.png 1374w, http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/new_hexa-300x184.png 300w, http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/new_hexa-1024x631.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JPokI.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone \u00a0wp-image-74\" title=\"new_hexa\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JPokI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cPJmxRwnsVI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So aside from the hush hush projects, I&#8217;ve recently picked up a new project on the side that I can talk about \ud83d\ude42 This project has been started at Nullspace Labs working along with charliex and mmca. &nbsp; I&#8217;ve always wanted an army of loyal robots to follow me around.. what better than a 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}