<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi-ho…<div><br></div><div>Had to share: The courier just dropped off this box of goodies:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://logicalit.biz/forumimages/140807 thekit.jpg">http://logicalit.biz/forumimages/140807%20thekit.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>Those who have been on the list a while might remember back in September 2003 when a small group of us met in the St Albans community centre I had a wee 3 servo perspex hexapod running off a Basic Stamp. At the time I was saying how I was going to do amazing things with a bigger one.</div><div><br></div><div>Well, its only taken me 11 years but I’ve finally put my money where my mouth is and ordered a 18servo alloy hexapod kit off ebay.</div><div><br></div><div>In the middle I’ve played around with a few different designs but never really finished anything. I have some single 3DOF legs in the junk box, a couple of 4DOF ones along with the mandatory collection of servos with stripped gears to show for my efforts.</div><div><br></div><div>At the moment its a pile of bits as you can see, but finished size will be about 500mm across with the legs fully extended. Should keep me off the streets for a while I’d say! :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Electronics plan at this stage is an arduino mega running the phoenix inverse kinematics engine. Servo power will be a couple of 10A switching regulators for the servos fed from a 3cell 1800maH Lipo. Probably a separate small 2cell lipo to run the micro, will see on that count although it’ll run tethered initially as I don’t have the ubecs yet, and even though the servos are metal geared I’ll just make smoke if I try to have it wandering around by itself before it’s debugged. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>I'll post random progress photos over the next 11 years as I try to make it walk!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, Chris H.</div></body></html>