NathanKau

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by NathanKau 6y ago
Martin's robot was definitely an inspiration. As far as I know he was the first one to figure out how to make cheap, nonbackdrivable servo motors work for dynamic quadruped movement. Wouldn't have started the project without seein
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by NathanKau 6y ago
We're actually working with some people who are interested in selling the kits as a side project. Stay tuned. With double the BOM cost, we'd use torque-controllable servos. We're testing out the DJI M2006 right now.
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by NathanKau 6y ago
Great feedback! Will definitely incorporate those features into future revisions.
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by NathanKau 6y ago
There's blackbird, but not sure of its current status. https://hackaday.io/project/160882-blackbird-bipedal-robot
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by NathanKau 6y ago
We've found you can actually do a lot with dumb servos and orientation feedback and get visually similar results to Spot. For instance, we get hopping, trotting, strafing, turning + strafing, walking. What it can't do is prancing
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by NathanKau 6y ago
Hey all, my group in Stanford Student Robotics made Pupper. Happy to answer any questions!
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by NathanKau 6y ago
Just for fun I uploaded the top and bottom body panel DXFs to jlcpcb and they're only about $2 each. That's compared to about $30 to have them cut out of carbon fiber, and of course you don't get to put circuity like your pow
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by NathanKau 6y ago
You can buy the CLS6336HV servos from JX-Servo directly for about $25 each. Usually a much better deal than on Aliexpress, Banggood etc and it's pretty easy to do. The $600 price point though assumes you have a number of things already
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by NathanKau 6y ago
The SpotMicroAI project has a great community on its Slack, but the project is a bit more in its infancy than Pupper. For instance, spot micro doesn't have the software right now to make it walk quickly or trot. Pupper is at a v1.0 sta
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by NathanKau 6y ago
You can buy the carbon fiber parts here! https://great3d.com/stanford-pupper-robot-carbon-fiber-parts...