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HexaPodTer: A Flying All-Terrain Educational Robot

A teaching platform for mechanical, electrical, software, and systems engineering.

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HexaPodTer: A Flying All-Terrain Educational Robot

HexaPodTer: A Flying All-Terrain Educational Robot

HexaPodTer: A Flying All-Terrain Educational Robot

HexaPodTer: A Flying All-Terrain Educational Robot

HexaPodTer: A Flying All-Terrain Educational Robot

A teaching platform for mechanical, electrical, software, and systems engineering.

A teaching platform for mechanical, electrical, software, and systems engineering.

A teaching platform for mechanical, electrical, software, and systems engineering.

A teaching platform for mechanical, electrical, software, and systems engineering.

Markian Melnyk
Markian Melnyk
Markian Melnyk
Markian Melnyk
1 Campaign |
Greenbelt, United States
$2,365 USD 35 backers
47% of $5,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

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:

First and Second section:

And the completed arm:


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What's the plan?

$50 USD
If you donate more than $50, you will gain access to all lower rewards and be able to download the work in progress plans in PDF format, as well as access to 3d printable component files. (Final plans will be available to the public once the robot has been completed).
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Thank-You!

$5 USD
A thank-you from the entire team in addition to access to our bi-weekly progress vlogs.
1 claimed

Robo-Supporter

$15 USD
In addition to the perks above, your name will be included on our unveiling video and presentation when the HexaPodTer is complete.
4 claimed

Robo-Backer!

$25 USD
In addition to the perks above, you will have your name engraved on a metal plate on the finished HexaPodTer.
5 claimed

Meet the Creators

$500 USD
You are invited to one of 9 available slots in a Hangout with us, the builders and inventors of the HexaPodTer. The hangout will be upon completion of our first successful prototype. You also get a limited edition plaque with a broken propeller from a test flight signed by the whole team.
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Meet us, IRL

$1,000 USD
So, you are the most generous of everyone, and to thank you for that, you can come and meet us at some time in the future at a set location that we will send you. You will be responsible for your own transportation, and this perk will feature all above perks EXCEPT "Meet the Creators", as Google Hangouts only supports 10 people, including us. You also get the limited edition plaque mentioned in the perk above.
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