Control Your Hexapod Robot Via Bluetooth

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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

Dan Piponi made this wild, Bluetooth-controlled Hexapod just for kicks and it looks like a lot of fun. The best part? He gave us all the instructions so we can build one ourselves.

This is obviously completely beyond my understanding, but all the DIY instructions and code are here and presumably you could attach this to another robot and make something even cooler do something cooler. I’d attach this to a kegbot and go nuts.

The only thing you need is the robot and a BlueSMiRF Gold Bluetooth modem. You also need some skill as an electronics engineer, but that’s a given.

via Make