A-pod, an ant inspired hexapod

[jes1510]

Beautiful!

[sam]

Wonderful

[tom_chang79]

Hi,
The abdomen 2 DOF joint uses 2x 645MG.

You gotta quit buying these things Zenta... I can only imagine the look on your wife's face when she discovers your secret stash of receipts!!!

I've not done anything with the code yet. I wont post any new vids before I'm satisfied with the walking part.

That's how I feel about my IK code too. It only walks and yaws right now, I can't get the pitch and roll portion of it correct... And experimenting with it lately doing the successive rotations, my code is very much trashed... There are so much cleanup to do after I'm satisfied with its performance...





Anywho, I am SUPER jealous of your ant bot. The sole reason why I got into HEXapod is because I love insects and bugs, ESPECIALLY Ants!!! I think I'm going to try to kludge a head on my Phoenix once the IK is done...

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! Can't wait to see more vids... I love your first vid, how you can move the rotation's origin around. Very awesome!

[Zenta]

Hi, thanks to you all for the nice words and comments!
Highly appreciated!

You gotta quit buying these things Zenta... I can only imagine the look on your wife's face when she discovers your secret stash of receipts!!!

Ehm, "The thing you don't know about, doesn't hurt you"... LOL
We all have a little dark secret...

Anywho, I am SUPER jealous of your ant bot. The sole reason why I got into HEXapod is because I love insects and bugs, ESPECIALLY Ants!!! I think I'm going to try to kludge a head on my Phoenix once the IK is done...

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! Can't wait to see more vids... I love your first vid, how you can move the rotation's origin around. Very awesome!

I do love ants too (should be very obvious ). Thanks for your words Tom, and good luck with your code and the head for Phoenix.

-Zenta

[Hondabot]

Life like, very beautiful.
Great work there.

[Adam]

Excellent biomorphic design. Truly inspiring!

[Zenta]

Hi,
I just wanted to update you with some pictures I took last summer of A-Pod. I took him outdoor to the wilderness...































Currently I've started working on the code again for XBee control. I'll post more info when I've done some more progress.

-Zenta

[innerbreed]

love it.

[Zenta]

Hi,

I've done alot of work lately on the code part for A-Pod. At the moment A-Pod walks very well and the code for movements are improved too. To be honest I'm very satisfied with the result. The combination of the mechanical improvements, some hardware changes to the DIY, Xan's latest v2.0 and Kurt's XBee/SSC binary code did the magic! I've also decreased the total weight of about 85 gram, all servos and electronics are now powered by the same LiPo.

Today I've uploaded a new video:



Enjoy.

-Zenta

[elios]

absolutely incredible work Zenta... completely amazed every time.

Again well done mate