About
This blog are mainly about all the robots I've made. I'll post information about what I currently work on in the home page of this blog. You'll find information about all my different robotic projects in the project page.
My name is Kåre Halvorsen (aka Zenta) from the little country called Norway. I work as a consultant engineer at the Assistive Technology Centre for Rogaland (a part of the Norwegian Welfare Services). I’m a family father with 2 (soon to be 3) kids and a wonderful (and very patient) wife.
Since I was a little boy I've always been fascinated by robots, all kind of robots: biped's, crawlers (quad,hexa- and octopods), robot arms, rovers and so on. But I started to get more serious about hobby robotics in 2006 when I tried building my first hexapod, highly inspired by the creations of Jim Frye (the owner of Lynxmotion) and Matt Denton's (owner of Micro Magic Systems) elegant hexapods.
Some of mine creations are also highly inspired by nature, especial insects like ants. Check out the photo’s by Alexander Wild and you’ll see what I mean
hi
i'm hasan a control engineer and i like insect robot .
what is your small motor used on your robot ? please send me more pic and dataor data sheet
, , your job is wonderful
thanks .
Hey, I writing you this email because I am very interesting about what you have made in your projects. you did great job. while I am studying I would like to make also some similar hexapod robot. Is it possible to send me what you have made and what kind of material did you use?, so i can get some information. Thank you very much
Hi Kare,
Fantastic blog. Really brilliant. Do you have an email I can grab you on I have a few questions for you.
Thanks
Ryan
You are truly a talented robot builder. I like your calling out Matt Denton as one of your inspirations. He is truly one of the Godfathers of hexapod robot builders. I am curious about how people or kids react to robots like A-Pod.. one of the more organic 'bots you've created. –Ray
Amazing!!! i've seen all your projects and i think that i would like to do the same in the future! thanks for the inspiration!!
I have one question for you: ¿ how can you make the body of your bots? ¿which materials do you use or which technique do you use to make its? your robots bodies are perfect, its don't looks homemade bodies.
Thanks very much and congratulations for your work!!
Hello Zeta, Nice to meet you!
My name is Federico and I'm from Brazil, I was surfing for youtube when i've seen a beatiful hexapod the famous A-POD.
So I searched on google who created the a-pod and found it your blog.
I'd like to know if you could give me the plant A-Pod chassis ?
What software you used to create the chassis ?
Unfortunately I can not buy, my country has many import taxes! It would be very expensive for me.
So I'll try to build.
Congratulations for your robots!!!
thank you
Frederick Arantes
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Hi Zenta, I have to say I got really impressed by your work (and it looks like I'm not the only one). I am a systems engineering student from Argentina, and I'd like to start a project like this. If I could get any kind of advice or a source of information for this, I would really appreciate it. Congratulations, and keep it up. Greetings from the other side (of the world).
[...] الآن لم يكتمل MorpHex وذلك حسب ما صرح به صانع الروبوت Kåre Halvorsen النرويجي الأصل ويقول أنه يعمل على اضافة مميزات عديدة [...]
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[...] Kåre (“Zenta”) Halvorsen είναι ο κύριος υπεύθυνος για αυτό το απίστευτα [...]
hi zenta,
awesome work!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaNkff5Yyg
i saw the above video today and enjoyed the footage of the a-pod 2 and the music to the video. what is the music you used in it? that too is awesome!
cheers,
phil