September 18, 2011

Brad's Hexapod Video Build Log
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Fellow Canadian Brad has been making a video log of the building of his Hexapod. You can see all the videos of the build here on his Youtube channel. “Handmade hexapod running my own handwritten c++ code. Servo’s are a bit squishy due to being underpowered for the time being. Wiring will be cleaned up and main processor mounted within the next few weeks.”

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The prize this week is a solar flashlight, if you want to use this as a flashlight you better charge it during the day and not keep it hidden in a drawer. 🙂 I am thinking that the housing could make for a very small surface mount project. Not sure if the solar cell would have enough power to energize a very low current circuit but I would think it