Comments on: Hexapod CNC bot

By: JS Peters

JS Peters — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:43:07 +0000

This is absolutely amazing, the engineering behind it is pretty outstanding, what RPM cutting speed are you using?

By: carlsonmark

carlsonmark — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:57:15 +0000

Anybody who wants hack-a-day "classic", change your bookmark to:
http://www.hackaday.com/category/daily/

Or for the rss feed:
http://www.hackaday.com/category/daily/rss.xml

Yeah, I know it's not fun to have to change your personal habits, but it's way easier than trying to get hackaday to change.

By: Barry Smith

Barry Smith — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:50:35 +0000

By adding vacuum pads to the feet, he can turn the vacuum off and walk or turn the vacuum on and get a firmer attachment to the surface while cutting. Even if all the feet aren’t on smooth enough surfaces to attach, maybe some will will be, and he still has not lost anything by trying to attach. Might be a useful addition.

By: Celina Nunes

Celina Nunes — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:48:55 +0000

This is a beautiful piece of engineering, this kind of forward thinking could really help with tasks like this. No fixed location means no fixed work space, I wonder if it could have a changeable tool at the front so it could do multiple tasks; scrap bubble gum off the side walk, check bridges for cracks etc…

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:27:43 +0000

Thanks for the interesting comments on my robot.. I’ve been getting a lot of runaway comments!

By: morden

morden — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:35:55 +0000

Crap, I want to build one of those so bad now….screw you guys for posting all of the hexapod information recently, you are going to sap my money reserves.

By: Lester Caine

Lester Caine — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:09:08 +0000

Now that would save me the trouble loading the mill into the truck for shows.
I just tell it to load itself :)

By: Louis

Louis — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:47:10 +0000

Wait… this isn’t a hack… or instructions for a building project… wtf?
*confused*

By: Spadefinger

Spadefinger — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:34:11 +0000

#4
Reminds me more of the robots in runaway. Gene Simmons should have won. Remember the gun he had? I still want one of those.

By: the daniel

the daniel — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:08:08 +0000

>>3

i was just jokin’

By: Nick Spacek

Nick Spacek — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:08:08 +0000

Uh, are you KIDDING me? :) This is awesome! Yeah, definitely like Sentinels, but this is really cool to see happening in real life. I mean, maybe it’s not that big of a deal to have robots walking around and milling things, but it seems sweet to me.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:50:06 +0000

Anyone else reminded of the Sentinels, from The Matrix?

By: Solenoidclock

Solenoidclock — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:46:01 +0000

>>2

In case you haven't noticed, Elliot's posted some awesome stuff between his links to gizmodo and boingboing. This is one of the best things this week.

If you're going to complain about hackaday's new growth then pick on a different article, like one of Juan's autoplaying corporate jigs about innovative and expensive ways to fall your ass. Quality is a far more productive battle to pick over quantity.

By: the daniel

the daniel — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:03:24 +0000

IF YOU DON’T STOP POSTING MORE THAN ONCE A DAY I WILL NAIL YOU TO A TREE

By: garrett

garrett — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:50:11 +0000

Fantastic…I can imagine very large CNC artwork being done by a swarm of these bots. They could even drill locator holes into the surface and have expanding fasteners on their feet to temporarily bolt to a surface, and maintain register after moving to a new location. Large vertical or even curved surfaces…. The video made me feel like I’d been launched 50 years forward in time.