Archer gets a femur upgrade.
I luckily got some robotic time in my workshop today. Inspired by Jonny Poole's work on his latest biped I decided to replace the short and simple femur on Archer with an ASB-10 (long C) + ASB-11 (offset) brackets. I do like this combination of brackets as a femur part for a hexapod (like T-hex) and here as the femur part for a biped. By using these brackets the legs got much more freedom, the ankle and the hip joint can almost touch each-other:
Another picture while Archer do a "single-leg" movement and holding the position, you can clearly see the good ground clearance:
Archer standing much taler than before:
So far I'm very impressed by the servos, after about 8 minutes of walking and body movement the servos doesn't even get hot! They are not cold of course, but they seem to handle the load pretty well.
hi Kåre,
looking nice. always great to follow your blog. keep up the good work.
ps: thanks for the mention.
Hi Zenta, I was just looking at all your excellent work, Archer is pretty amazing, keep up the amazing work. I was wondering if you could give me some advice? I am doing my Final year project in college and I want to build a Hexapod. I have done some work on robots, but not a huge amount, I built a robot arm which could pick up objects and distinguish between colours, I used servos and I wrote a programme on Circuit Wizard and programmed a genie chip. With regards to a Hexapod would I better off using a controller like a Playstation controller rather than programming each movement of each servo? Is this easily done?
Thanks
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