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Step 7Join everything together and PLAY.
The last step is to join everything together (first picture), first join two legs together through a white piece, do the same for the other two, then join them together in the crankshaft.
Now as you do this you will notice that the legs tend to bend and stray, for preventing this we need to join them as in the second picture, notice the yellow bar between the legs (where there are a lot of yellow pieces) this structure connects the top triangle rod with another leg and the frame.
As you can see in the fourth pic, this connector also allows us to adjust the distance between each pair of legs, this is important because the feet need space for walking and if we keep this distance too short the feet will join and cause the beest to trip and fall.
The last picture shows how to make the animal walk, you need to twist the crankshaft and it will walk, you can see the legs bending and this movement will cause the whole structure to move forward.
This animal still needs some improvement, specially on the crankshaft and on the amount of pieces needed, but it functions as a good basis for other proyects, later i will post how i transformed this beest into a laptop stand and how using just the feet i made an little robot crawler.
Any comments are truly appreciated and please let me know if you build one of these which steps need further explanation, which parts you feel need revision and specially if you know how to mount an futaba servo to it please tell me, i would like to make this animal bigger and stronger, and i know the instructables community can help me.
Now as you do this you will notice that the legs tend to bend and stray, for preventing this we need to join them as in the second picture, notice the yellow bar between the legs (where there are a lot of yellow pieces) this structure connects the top triangle rod with another leg and the frame.
As you can see in the fourth pic, this connector also allows us to adjust the distance between each pair of legs, this is important because the feet need space for walking and if we keep this distance too short the feet will join and cause the beest to trip and fall.
The last picture shows how to make the animal walk, you need to twist the crankshaft and it will walk, you can see the legs bending and this movement will cause the whole structure to move forward.
This animal still needs some improvement, specially on the crankshaft and on the amount of pieces needed, but it functions as a good basis for other proyects, later i will post how i transformed this beest into a laptop stand and how using just the feet i made an little robot crawler.
Any comments are truly appreciated and please let me know if you build one of these which steps need further explanation, which parts you feel need revision and specially if you know how to mount an futaba servo to it please tell me, i would like to make this animal bigger and stronger, and i know the instructables community can help me.
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