MorpHex, sphere sections mounted on legs
Hi,
A new update about my MorpHex project. I didn't have time to take some good quality pictures because I'm working with some gardening and renovating stuff that occupies my "photo studio". Some workshop pics with bad lighting was my only option last evening/night.
Anyway, I've been very eager to get the lower sphere sections mounted onto the legs. So eager that I selected a rather easy way by using some counter sink white nylon screws. I'm planning to use three screws on each sphere part and mount it to the ASB-04 tibia bracket. So far I'm using only two for testing. It was a bit tricky to align the hole for drilling, so I used a LED as a lamp behind the sphere part:
Already drilled and just plugged in the screws for holding it in place when doing the next leg (sorry for the blurry picture):
Btw, I'm also planning to reinforce each sphere part. I did just a simple test, the final result will be better. The plastic material is Poly Carbonate. By mounting ribs on each side the part gets more rigid, the rib also make sure that the neighbor leg/sphere part doesn't overlap each other in sphere mode.
Here are some pictures of MorpHex in action with all six sphere parts mounted.
Fully extended body:
Ready for transforming into sphere mode:
Transforming:
Sphere mode! 
As you can see there are some small adjustments to do, and I've already done some improvements today to get them even better aligned. but so far, so good.
Normal body height for walking, the legs have very much free space for moving around without any conflict.
Still a lot of work left. I'll start on the upper sphere section when I'm satisfied with the lower section.
I was brought here by Hackaday. Your robots are incredibly cool, and I wish I had the engineering skills to make anything comparable in quality or polish. Please keep on doing this, so the rest of us can stand in awe.
Really amazing project, looking forward to see the further development of the kick ass robot!
Keep up the great work!
[...] is Norweigian Kåre Halvorsen’s MorpHex [...]
Nice work!
Having spotted this VERY impressive design on Hack-a-Day, I have a question to ask. This site is called robot-kits. Are you going to make kits of this design available? I know I'd pay for one – feel free to drop me an e-mail!
[...] is Norweigian Kåre Halvorsen’s MorpHex [...]
I just don't have words my friend. I've been watching the hackaday website for almost a year and haven't seen anything this cool.
For the first time in my life, and after seeing this project, I actually want to build something myself. I'm a tech consultant, but I don't have programming skills. Now if there were a step-by-step guide with pictures, I think I could build this… but where to find the parts?
Would you be willing to provide such details for this awesome creature? If so, I could see so many uses for it, that it drives me crazy.
Please let me know if you intend on selling this idea or whether I can look forward to a day (hopefully in the near future) where I can finally take something that I see from the internet and make myself something in the real world.
Zenta, definitely the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.
Drop me a line if you have a build it yourself guide.
Jason
awesome project like puresiver said are you selling the design? and what servos are you useing feel free to send me a email cool robot again Dean
I have to say what a great planet probe. Can you add the function of having it roll as well as walk.