{"id":18689,"date":"2020-08-06T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T08:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/?p=18689"},"modified":"2020-08-06T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T08:07:20","slug":"miles-the-spider-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/2020\/08\/06\/miles-the-spider-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Miles the Spider Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love robotic spiders? Today&#8217;s biomimetic robot comes in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Miles-a-Quadruped-Spider-Robot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miles, the quadruped spider robot from [_Robox]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Miles uses twelve servos to control its motion, three on each of its legs, and also includes a standard HC-SR04 ultrasonic distance sensor for some obstacle avoidance capabilities. Twelve servos can use quite a bit of power, so [_Robox_] had to power Miles with six LM7805 ICs to get sufficient current. [_Robox_] laser cut acrylic sheets for Miles&#8217;s body but mentions that 3D printing would work as well.<\/p>\n<p>Miles uses inverse kinematics to get around, <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/07\/03\/robotic-biped-walks-on-inverse-kinematics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which we&#8217;ve seen in a previous project<\/a> and is a <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/10\/19\/a-robotic-arm-for-those-who-like-their-kinematics-both-ways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pretty popular technique for controlling robotic motion<\/a>. The Instructable is a little light on the details, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Robox-Robotics\/Miles_the_spider_robot\/blob\/master\/Miles_Sequence_code\/Miles_Sequence_code.ino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">but the source code is something to take a look at<\/a>. In addition to simply moving around [_Robox_] developed code to make Miles dance, wave, and take a bow. That&#8217;s sure to be a hit at your next virtual show-and-tell.<\/p>\n<p>By now you&#8217;re saying &#8220;wait, spiders have eight legs&#8221;, and of course you&#8217;re right. But that&#8217;s an awful lot of servos. Anyway, if you&#8217;d rather\u00a03D print your four-legged spider, <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/04\/22\/hari-prints-an-awesome-spider-robot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we have a suggestion.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>source <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/08\/06\/miles-the-spider-robot\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/08\/06\/miles-the-spider-robot\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love robotic spiders? Today&#8217;s biomimetic robot comes in the form of Miles, the quadruped spider robot from [_Robox]. Miles uses twelve servos to control its motion, three on each of its legs, and also includes a standard HC-SR04<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/2020\/08\/06\/miles-the-spider-robot\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Miles the Spider Robot<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18690,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689\/revisions\/18690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}