New four legged addition to our family

T-man

This is my first file attachment so please be patient.·

Thanks to many of you, I finally got my QuadCrawler walking without burning or stripping his servos.· Minor modifications include revised feet so as to insure a more stabile support polygon.· This greater stability affords many more gait choices while alleviating stress on the mechanical elements.

Most of my efforts, to date, have been spent on his learning how to walk.· As a result, he's in the very early stages of environment awareness development.· His Ping sensor works great, although his fatter feet tend to be a challenge.· This is the trade off for better platform stability.· He also has color audio/video monitoring.· ·

I'd like to add whiskers or infrared sensors to his forward feet.· Not sure which is best.· I'm also trying to figure out how to embed this code with his current program.· Any help would be appreciated as always.· I'll attach some video once I figure out how to upload the correct vid format.

T-man

Skywalker49

Hi,

great design, look forward to see the video

Good luck,
Ed

T0m

Nice Job. It looks like it already has a personality.
Tom

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xtricity

what are you using for the feet?

T-man

Thanks Ed, T0m, and xtricity,

Actually, his feet are spotlight mount bases I had lying around the garage.· I painted them black to insure color symmetry with his other parts.· I'll be adding various feet inserts into the bottoms depending on the surface he's walking on.· Currently, he's good on laminate surfaces, wood and carpet without incurring any nasty leg torque.· His Ping housing is a styling tip off of my wife's blow dryer.· I dremel tooled it so that it surrounded the Ping.· The back of the bonnet is an end cap from a mailing tube, again painted black.

As far as personality is concerned, he is beginning to garner his own style.· Not sure what his name is yet.· I suppose his nickname could be 'Costly' given the terrible time I had getting his gait balanced correctly.· I've replaced more than a few gear sets and servos.· Anyway, we're having a large time now.

I still can't figure out the vid format.· still working on it.· More to come.

T-man

Duffer

T-man,
Get yourself a YouTube account (free for the asking), upload your video and post a link here. It's dead easy (even I got it right the first time).
Steve

T-man

Okay, here it goes.· I've uploaded some video of my Quadruped.· There may be a couple of other files forthcoming.·

T-man

T-man

Here are two more vids that I missed on the first upload.

T-man

crgwbr

T-Mann, you may not know it, but .MSWMM files are Windows movie maker project files. These are simply instructions for your computer to play separate video files. In order for someone else to watch the video, you (in Windows Movie Maker) must go to File --> Save Movie File. This will take some time, and produce a file that others can watch, but will be to large to post in the forums. That is where youtube comes in. Make a free account, and follow the instructions for uploading a video (brutally simple though time consuming). Then simply put a link to your video in a post.

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T-man

crgwbr,

I'm an idiot.· I didn't even think about this detail.· Anyway, I do have a YouTube account.· Below is the link to 5 videos of·my QuadWalker·critter.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=quadwalker

Thanks for the help.· Hope this works for everyone.

T-man···

Skywalker49

T-man. Yes, this works.

Nice design, could be ET's best friend.

good luck,
Ed

T0m

Great Videos, Great Robot....awsome

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