Our Story
We are a group of high school students working together to design, build, program, and pilot a flying hexapod for one of our school projects. It will be designed and assembled from scratch, and we are going to need approximately five-thousand dollars in order to create a highly functional version of the concept. Most of that money will be spent on electronics (upwards of four-thousand dollars) due to their high cost, and the rest of it will be going towards raw materials and manufacturing. If money allows, our team will be contacting professional machine shops to mill out CAD files of the HexaPodTer's parts in order to give it the highest possible adherence to design dimensions.
Once funding has been established, our team will be creating Bi-Weekly videos updating our backers on our progress in structural design concepts, as well as progress in the physical build.
The HexaPodTer is going to be one of the first open-source projects of it's kind, and fully documented build logs, designs, and our backer update videos will be available online, for free, upon the HexaPodTer's completion.
We are confident our success in making this project a reality will be able to serve as an inspiration to young engineers around the world, and the open-source nature of our work will be able to supplement valuable research and information on similar fields of robotics to anyone willing to read it.
Here are some of the preliminary CAD drawings of the leg structure. A completed arm can be seen animated at 1:00 in the video.
First Section:
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First and Second section:
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And the completed arm:
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