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Walking Robot
Walking Robot
Tell us about your assignment's idea for this week. Why do you care about this idea? What inspired you? (Please include images or links to sources of inspiration)
Tell us about your assignment's idea for this week. Why do you care about this idea? What inspired you? (Please include images or links to sources of inspiration)
Tiny robot
For this week’s assignment, I built a small walking robot. The robot’s main action is to walk forward using a simple mechanism. Even though it’s a very basic function, I found it exciting to see how small components can come together to create movement.
Why I Care About This Idea
Why I Care About This Idea
Walking is one of the most natural actions in the world, yet when you try to recreate it mechanically, it becomes a fascinating challenge. By making this robot, I learned how design, balance, and motion connect. I care about this idea because it helped me understand the basics of robotics in a hands-on way, while also giving me a playful project that combines creativity with engineering.
What Inspired Me
What Inspired Me
I was inspired by how animals and humans move, and how engineers try to copy that movement with robots. Watching simple DIY walking robots made me curious to try my own version on a smaller scale.
Tool Chain
Tool Chain
Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?
Which software/machines/materials did you use in the assignment? Why?
Simulation:
TinkerCAD
Implementation:
Electronic kit
Material
Material
Sticks
Straws
Wide sticks
Filament
Electronics
Electronics
DC motor
LED
Jumper wire
Resistor
Switch
Adapter
Arduino
Design/Preparation Process
Design/Preparation Process
Explain the design and/or preparation process of your assignment. How did you use the tool or software to design and/or prepare your assignment before fabrication/implementation?
Explain the design and/or preparation process of your assignment. How did you use the tool or software to design and/or prepare your assignment before fabrication/implementation?
Step 1:
Watch Youtube videos for inspiration
Step 2:
Prepare the circuit simulation, here DC motor and LED were used as an output. (Connection is parallel )
Step3:
Implement the circuit on the bread board
Step 4:
Prepare the cardboards, straws and sticks
Untitled video - Made with Clipchamp (4).mp4Simulation
Simulation
Final connection
Final connection
Development/Implementation Process
Development/Implementation Process
Explain the development/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?
Explain the development/implementation process of your assignment. How did you use the machine/tool to manufacture or implement the design of your assignment?
Finish the connection
Cut and Align the wide sticks
Use a straw ti stablize the sticks
Set the wiring on the carriage
time to make the head
I used my 3D prn
Turn it on
LETS GO TEST IT!!!!!!!!
Testing
Testing
WhatsApp Video 2025-08-18 at 12.00.36_a2ca73cc.mp4The mechanism works fine
The mechanism works fine
WhatsApp Video 2025-08-18 at 11.57.06_c93861cf.mp4Trial 1
Trial 1
WhatsApp Video 2025-08-18 at 11.57.28_279dfc2f.mp4Trial 2
Trial 2
Community of Learning
Community of Learning
Did you ask for feedback? What are the ideas that others have contributed or suggested? What was someone else’s idea that you built upon? How did you help your peers? How did your peers help you?
Did you ask for feedback? What are the ideas that others have contributed or suggested? What was someone else’s idea that you built upon? How did you help your peers? How did your peers help you?
Robot foot
When i asked my instructor about my robot and how it always fall. She stated the cardboard always have to be stable otherwise it will always fall. Thus I experimented more with the cardboard.
In the previous picture, i dug the sticks in the carboard and added the glue gun to ensure its stability.
Overcoming Challenges
Overcoming Challenges
When you got stuck, what/who did you turn to? At what point did you have to pause to research or learn more before moving on? What are some mistakes, pitfalls, or challenges that others can avoid if they were doing this assignment?
When you got stuck, what/who did you turn to? At what point did you have to pause to research or learn more before moving on? What are some mistakes, pitfalls, or challenges that others can avoid if they were doing this assignment?
My robot is not able to stand upright, but it loses stability very quickly and falls almost immediately after standing. This is due to the many wires and heavy load to the wood.
To help with this issue, I attached a back support, which was the carriage, so that it can stay in position for longer without toppling over. The support gives it some extra stability, but it also shows me that the robot still needs improvements in balance and weight distribution to be able to stand and move on its own.
Without Back support
Without Back support
With Back support
With Back support
Final Project
Final Project
How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?
How can you use the skills and knowledge that you've acquired this week in your final project?
WhatsApp Video 2025-08-18 at 13.49.10_745ca547.mp4Final Project!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In this week, everything is very new to me. But it is my honour to be able to achieve something, although the robot is limping.
New skills:
Circuits
Simulation
WOW!
WOW!
What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?
What is the coolest thing that you've learned this week? What is something that you will never forget from this week?
H bridge mechanism
This week was so fun as we built our own car and competed with each other. I never we can make a game console via a breadboard
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