It has been one hell of a long time since I last posted and sadly this will just be a short one, I hope to get some posts up soon! I have a ton of MY6812 motors that were originally intended for a hexapod design of mine (and still intended to) of which I want […]
Its been a ton of time since I last did any updates on the ol’ human sized hexapod! I finally decided to go for dedicated motor controller ICs (Allegro A4950) as opposed to a discrete solution. These chips were pretty expensive (~£27 for the entire board…) driven by an STM32F030 once again generating software PWM. […]
So today has been exceptional! I’ve made loads of progress with thanks to the arrival of my new components. As was stated previously, there were way too many losses in the gate shift registers using the 4x 1k resistor arrays. Therefore, I needed to replace the arrays for 1k resistors to the gate (maximum output […]
(Its now 4/5/17 shhhh) Frame So last night I was in the hackspace testing out my new hinges and moved actuator. Sadly, the hinges once again were too weak to fully support my weight (ugh) so it’s made me rethink the design of each leg. I am however going to keep the hinges for now […]
After the faults with controller board 1, I wanted to respin another controller board ASAP. These boards arrived yesterday and with a swift order from RS, so did a load of components! On the previous board, I was using a large STM32 device with many pins and driving the motors directly through level shifter chips. […]
Obviously having feedback for each of the linear actuators is a pretty big requirement (though not essential realistically for the leg lifting actuators), therefore a fair bit of through needs to go into this section. I was originally going to use flex sensors on the joints to measure the angle of each joint but after […]
I guess now would be a good time to disclaim my machining abilities. I can safely say that I’d make a shocking machinist but I guess its the effort that counts right? Regardless, with the arrival of parts, the build could begin! The leg and hip hinges As all of the aluminium was pre cut […]
Half man, half (ant, beetle, grasshopper, cockroach…), the ultimate dream of creepy sci-fi locomotion. I’m sat here with a 6 legged centaur like image in my head, somewhat like the Scorpion King from The Mummy (exceptional 1999 CGI). Probably about the strangest intro to a post I’ve ever written but hey! It’ll do. This is […]
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