Inspired by a randomly stumbled upon Youtube video of a rolling hexapod robot. With 19 PMW servos, and 3 micro controllers this project began to take life. Any and all aspects of robotic engineering was involved in the creation of this hexapod robot. The significance of this project was not the final product, but rather the educational journey I took to get there. Every step presented an issue I had to overcome and learn from. Being my first engineering endeavor ever, every technical skill was learned along the way. Extensive research, persistence and old fashion trial and error propelled me to success. My understanding and knowledge grew significantly in conjunction with my problem solving skills.

The primary purpose of this hexapod robot is to walk. The robot can walk in 4 directions and can turn by rotating in place. Although the program I wrote for the robot to walk is not robust as I would have hoped for from my standards today, it did its job.

On-top of the robot being able to walk it can also perform dynamic movements by moving its legs to orientate its body. These dynamic movements include vertical offsets as well as a gyroscopic movement. Using an accelerometer in another project, the Arm Remote, by turning my hand it was intended to update the robot's position to micic the yaw and pitch of my hand movement. Although I was almost able to make this work the kinematic dynamics became too complicated with too little time convoluted by educational studies.