A trip to the Netherlands

During the last weekend I visited my friend Jeroen Janssen at his new place in the Netherlands. It was a great 4 days vacation with warm and sunny weather. Jeroen is also known as Xan on different robotic forums and Xanore on his YouTube channel. Jeroen has contributed a lot to the robotic community by sharing [...]

Archer, assembling the prototype

Like I mentioned in my previous post I wanted to try out the reversed knee leg design. And since Archer won't have any upper body with arms like a humanoid it was pretty obvious that he should be a Mech robot. To be honest I don't think he will ever get any sort of weapon [...]

Archer, simple leg design

So far I've not paid much attention to the leg design, simply because this is more like a "proof of concept" project, especially when it comes to the walking part and most of all the kinematic algorithms. At the beginning I tried a basic normal knee leg design, using standard Lynxmotion brackets and parts. Here [...]