If you have heard of BEAM robots you have probably heard of the one motor bicore walker. The one motor walker uses a circuit called a bicore that makes the motor(s) oscillate instead of turning in a full 360 degree rotation. This makes the robot or walker move forward on its legs. A couple weeks ago I was searching on youtube for one motor walkers and I stumbled upon a video that showed a walker (one motor) without bicore. Now, thats pretty rare to see a robot walker without bicore but somehow I managed to find one on youtube. The creator's youtube channel is http://www.youtube.com/user/galopante78, his videos all show his homemade robots. The way this robot manages to walk without bicore is that it uses a servo motor, vertical/horizontal axis, metal wire, leg rod connector, and a battery pack. The front leg is connected to a horizontal axis and the back leg is vice-versa. The servo motor is located on the middle of the robots chassis, and there is a rod connected to the motor's drive shaft. The two ends on the rod are then connected to each leg so that each time the motor rotates the rod moves the legs move back and fourth thus making the robot walk. If you would like to his robot blog too just click on the link at, http://kitchenlabrobot.blogspot.com/. Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment.
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