Category Archives: SIGMA Walking Robot

A Bluetooth-Controlled Robot

Controlling a walking robot wirelessly, via Bluetooth. (Plans and source code included.) Continue reading

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A step in the right direction

Well, that would explain it… The reason that the quadruped robot was doing the “funky chicken” instead of walking smoothly was mostly due to a major bug in the gait angle calculations. The angle of the leg is the sum … Continue reading

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Walker robot progress

Well, it moves. The gait algorithm is still handcoded instead of evolved (I’m working on finding a physics sim I can use for that), and is less than efficient — but at least it’s going in the right direction. The … Continue reading

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Quadrupedal locomotion

Okay, this is unexpected. I mean, I like old technology and all, but why would an electronics geek — even a Paleotechnologist — be reading a 127-year-old book on The Horse in Motion (with a study on quadrupedal locomotion?) For … Continue reading

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