High Speed, All-Terrain RC Snake Robot

[jk_hop]

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I wanted to share the results my project, a high speed RC snake robot:

R2G2: Robot with Rectilinear Gait for Ground Operations

http://youtu.be/t4oQos_LYyc

Not quite a crawler yet, but I'm working on it! Hopefully you will enjoy.

Thanks,

James

Physical Parameters:
-Cross Section: 69.85 x 69.85 mm
-Length (Contracted): 1003.3 mm
-Length (Extended): 1384.3 mm
-Weight: 2.49 kg

Power Plant:
-18 Hitec, Titanium Gear, 24 kg.cm servomotors
-7.4V 2100mAh Li-Poly Battery

Control:
-GWS Radio Transmitter & Receiver
-Arduino Mega 2560 Microcontroller Board

Performance:
-Max forward velocity 414.46 mm/s
-Max turning speed 14.33 deg/s<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
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