Walking Robot Part II

Here is this weeks update of our wonderful walking robot. So my amazing partner created this model from which we have based our design!
 
It is the rabbit robot! I have cleverly named this guy hopper! The hope is that we can make him actually hop! It is a simple mechanism that draws inspiration from rabbits and the wonderful wall climber. To make this rabbit hop, we are trying to design a second set of front legs. But those aren't shown here cause they are a secondary design thought.

So we worked on creating this model in solid works. I had LOTS of fun with that :). I love solid works. One of the cool things we did, was we figured out the density of the 1/8 " Delrin. We then inputted the mass of each of the pieces crafted in solid works so we could calculate the center of gravity for the pieces. We really only needed this for the rabbit feet, because we wanted to put the hole in the center of gravity of the piece so that is balances correctly. Anyways, it was a really nifty tool we found in solid works.

So I assembled all of the parts in the assembly portion of solid works. I also made a representation of the motor/engine in solid works which I used in the assembly. Now we just have to add the front legs to the solid works and then try printing out our piece. We plan to use the delray pins for connecting the rabbit legs (like the wall climber).


 
Here our pictures of the calculations that we did to create the solidworks model of the hopper. Lots of fun calculating it!

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