Dave Snowdon

The goal of this project was to construct a low-cost expandable robot platform that Aurorans members can build on without a lot of hardware. Danny and I reckoned that most technology enthusiasts would have a laptop and using a laptop gives the advantage of a familiar environment for for use and development of the software for the robot. Besides the laptop and some standard rechargeable batteries the components required for version 1 are:

I'm a member of the Aurorans group ( meetup.com page, ning site). Danny Staple and myself were tasked with putting together a robot that would be simple enough to assemble by interested newbies to robotics (although I hardly qualify as an expert myself). Danny & I agreed on some basic hardware and set to work. Danny's version, the Eee bot, is documented here. This page documents my version of the robot, Chairbot.

This page describes my attempts to build and program a hexapod (6-legged) robot. For more information, see the updates below.

I’ve been fascinated by robotics for a long while but have not done very much - mostly because I like programming a lot more than I like hacking hardware. However, in 2006 I decided to have a go at building a hexapod (6-legged robot) using parts from lynxmotion.com. I got all enthusiastic for a while and then moving from Antibes to London and staring a new job led to me putting the project to one side for over 18 months.