Completed Goals

I have reached a few goals and managed to complete a few challenges that I was afraid of. There are actually two important steps I have completed.

Build Update

First, I managed to finish the raw Hexapod build (a few electronic parts are still missing, but I mean the body).

Code Improvements

Secondly, I made a few improvements to control a Hexapod leg with coordinates (we also had a problem with our C++ header files that my friend has, thank goodness, solved). So now we are really able to control a real leg with coordinates.

Movement Test

Another big feature where I laid my focus was a first movement test. I already implemented this feature. I tried to program the tripod gait. I hope that it’ll work, because I wasn’t able to test it until now like I mentioned above, I hadn’t had the time to include some electronic parts in the Hexapod build.

What’s Next?

I suppose my next big step will be to actually get the robot to walk, so that my friend can finish his important tests and start to implement other movement features, because he is already really hyped for that. We’ll maybe also start with some kind of a control system, but I think that this will take us a little more time and it will be a while yet before we actually get started with that.