My first walking robot project

I am currently working on constructing a foot long walking robot in my spare time. It will have six legs articulated in such a way as to let it walk in a half dozen different ways. It will have rudementary shock-absorbers in its legs amd be very flexible.

The whole shebang will be controlled through a cable protruding from one end. I am thinking about a camera attatched to the other. My scanner is currently AWOL so I have a monocrome bitmap image attatched to this post.

What do you think? This is my first nonwheeled robot so im keeping it simple. What should I call it?

I am also thinking I could fuse two or three of these things together into a centipede like creature.

 

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Glad to see someone actually building something. Call it a hexabot.

Harold

 

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What would you call it if you hooked several of these things end to end? (kind of like a centipede)

 

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I call all my machines animachines, from animal machines or animated machines. Take your pick. This centipede notion is good. That means you have code for leg pairs. Since we are talking about names, call it an n-Bot where n is the number of leg pairs.

Harold

 

I am thinking I could work it so you only have to really control the first pair of legs and the rest move largely in reaction. It would simplify things amazingly.

 

Right. Steering is only required on the front legs if the legs are decoupled.
Harold

 

I have constructed a very similar design.

http://www.msu.edu/~huntjas2/robot.html