My First Attempt at a Quadruped

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My First Attempt at a Quadruped

Postby Joshislong » Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:36 am

Hi Everyone. Several months ago I came across this forum and I was inspired to build my own robot. My goal was to design, build, and program an inexpensive quadruped based on the arduino. I loosely went off of Chok's QSR-X1 design. All the parts were laser cut from 3mm acrylic.

Here are some pictures of my robot. Sorry for the phone-quality pictures; I don't have access to a camera at the moment.
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^^ I designed it using Pro/Engineer. The chassis started out as a square with mounting holes in it, and I started cutting away material until I liked the way it looked.

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^^ Here you can see the design for the femur. It's basically a bent piece with servo slots. :lol:

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^^ This picture shows the tibia/lower leg. I cut out as much material as possible to minimize the torque the servos would need to apply.

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^^ Here is a picture of the double-decker chassis with the arduino mounted inside. Note how cool the translucent acrylic looks. :D

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^^ This shot shows the hip/coxa joint. For this I had to design 3 separate pieces and bond them using acrylic cement.

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^^ Finally, these are the servos that I am using. They are rated for 1.5 kg/cm at 4.8V, but I am supplying 6V, so I should get a little more torque out of them. The main reason I used them is that they cost $3 each, including shipping.

The rest of the hardware I need for assembly is on the way. I appreciate any questions, comments, or suggestions you may have!
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Re: My First Attempt at a Quadruped

Postby CrazyEyesNZ » Tue Jul 27, 2010 4:41 am

Looks really nice so far. It will be nice to see it progress. Is that an Arduino? If so I would be interested on seeing how you write the code. And how you overcome the jittery ports.
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Re: My First Attempt at a Quadruped

Postby Joshislong » Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:22 am

CrazyEyesNZ wrote:Looks really nice so far. It will be nice to see it progress. Is that an Arduino? If so I would be interested on seeing how you write the code. And how you overcome the jittery ports.


Thank you for the kind words. Yes, that is an Arduino mounted in there. I got it at the beginning of my summer break, which is what gave me the idea for this project. I did a lot of research into Arduino servo coding, and I came to the conclusion that I was in over my head, so I bought a servo controller from Pololu. The servo controller should allow me to get my beast walking before I go off to football camp.
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Re: My First Attempt at a Quadruped

Postby Matt Denton » Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:57 am

Always good to see more quads on the forum! :)
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Re: My First Attempt at a Quadruped

Postby clh6685 » Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:55 pm

nice...keep post your work.
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Re: My First Attempt at a Quadruped

Postby Joshislong » Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:42 pm

Hi again. I finally got my bot assembled. It's a lot bigger than I thought it would be. Everything looks a lot smaller on the computer screen. There is about 7.5 cm (3 inches) of ground clearance. I am pretty pleased with the weight, though. Even with the battery, it is only 385 grams. Here are some pictures:

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