Best Legs in Town!!

Hi everyone!

     My name is Neil Manthorne, I'm an elevator mechanic with almost 30 years experience and a robot builder with almost 1 year experience! Although I had a broad familiarity with electronics, wiring, motors and mechanical - isn't it great to get into something seemingly related and find out there are many specific things that you need to learn? I could troubleshoot a 3-phase induction motor and a DC motor, but had little experience in servo and stepper motors. I could program a drive, but had no experience with Python or anything similar to program a series of movements in a robot.

      I don't need to tell you more about myself, I just want you to know that joining the RobotsBuilder group has been very helpful for me. They have a design, so you can print off your first (or whatever) robot, there is lots of collaborative knowledge of programming and servos, and there is a willing forum of people who want to help, and create together.

     I came to you today to show off my robot legs I have been printing off and assembling. Check out these "getaway sticks!"

     The above photo shows my legs as I assembled the foot, ankle servos x2, knee servo and near the top, partially out of view is where the top of legs will eventually meet the hip.

     Here is another picture of the legs back to back. I want to show you something very important which is range of motion...

     Here you can see this leg on the left embodies a great range of movement as it will lay on the floor on the outside of the leg. It will lay about 45 degrees in the other direction (not shown). The leg on the right (left leg) can lay past the horizontal to until the knee touches the floor in the back, and can lay forward until it is just slightly past the horizontal in the forward direction (below).

     Below is another photo to show the balance of the legs:

     Well, that concludes my display of legs so far. Hoping you take an interest in this build and maybe you would like to join us as we gain from the wealth of experiences during this (and other) builds!! 😎

Thank you,

Neil Manthorne