Reverse knee biped

[thesaxmachine]

Another project that is in the planning stage. Who is in?

[rsilk]

Ooh, hells yes.

[Bergo]

sweet, mech warrior!

[FingerTech]

Thread hijack!
This is actually the main thing I want to finish in the TechWorks space. I figure if I bring the parts there, then bring myself there, I will have no choice but to finish!

Solidworks CAD

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This is the CAD of my intended MechWars 2010 entry.

Routered garolite

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All the garolite panels routered out.

Routered and bent aluminum parts

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Aluminum frame pieces milled and bent.

It stands!

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All assembled.

I've got the guns too but no pics.
I plan to run the entire robot from a R/C transmitter, using preprogrammed walking gaits stored in the SSC-32 servo controller. I have a microcontroller interpreting the pulse streams from the radio receiver, but that's as far as I got because the cheap smaller digital servos freaked out when I pressed the "emergency stop" button in the SSC-32 software and killed themselves.

Now back to Al's thread...

[DigitalOSH]

Want to bring what you've got for a show & tell at the next meeting?

[rsilk]

Where do you get that plastic (garolite?) from? Looks very handy.

[thesaxmachine]

Garolite is a trade name for the stuff they use for PCBs. You can get it from Kurtis' store.

[FingerTech]

I had to steal parts from it so it doesn't look like much at the moment. I could bring it if you still want.

Ryan, I sell 1/16" garolite sheets in blue, black, red and camouflage! Like Al said, it's pcb without the copper. FR-4 is the variety I sell, which is a little stronger than pcbs.