Arduino Based Four Legged Robot

The name of our robot is FIER and here is a video of it saying hello to the world.

In this instructable, I will try to show you the basic steps to making your own walking robot for the most bang for your buck. 

You may be asking why did I use balsa wood as the body for the robot. The reason I did this was to make the robot as lite weight as possible. In order to make the robot as cheap as possible I had to use the cheapest servos I could find since there is so many needed and because the servos are so cheap they have a low torque and can't handle much weight and in turn, balsa wood. Plus balsa wood is really easy to work with.

Age: 23

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Comments

[asif305]

can u plz send me the code for moving all legs
in .doc file
thanks in advance
[e-mail]

[JoshuaAvila210]

um im doing this as a science project and i want to know if you can tell me a store to buy all of the stuff: home depo walmart ect.
thank ypo

[vexedphoenix]

There is a Parts and Material page for this tutorial, that contains an excel file that has a website link for each item.

[aaaooo60]

sir, i am trying to build a quad pet with 8 servo using c language but i am finding very hard to implement because i am first time using servo motor and unable to control it so sir can you plz gave me few sample code to control servo motor and rest i can do it my self because my teacher don't know any thing about servo motor programing.

[vexedphoenix]

There is an example available in the programming page of this tutorial. It contains code to control the PWM driver, which controls the servo.

[JoshuaAvila210]

also can it be near west covina
i cant quite get where to put the wires

[mubashir_tuf]

that is one of the great idea......i liked it now very soon going to work on it.....

[ikertf]

hello I liked this project. I'm starting with the programming of arduiuno and I would like to know how you can add this robot to any sensor or by remote control. thanks

[Steve_Racer]

That is awesome! I've been thinking about an inexpensive quadruped robot, but you beat me to it and with some good ideas that can be easily scaled / modified / adapted. I love those legs.

[wilgubeast]

Great first instructable! The videos definitely help, and your photos were sufficient. Flesh out that intro a bit more, and keep developing your photography skills (pun!). Soon you'll be winning contests with the best of 'em.

[vexedphoenix]

Thanks for the advice, I'll try to improve this instructable as soon as I can.

[pedroxl]

here dude see this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmcRGSNJZQQ&feature=g-u-u

[Nitin Bhalla]

Hey It's awesome and I'm surely gonna try this...
Can you please let me know how the software works I didn't quite understand that part properly...
Please mail it to me..
id- [e-mail]
Will await for your reply.