DIY Walkers from LEGO-scale to SUV-scale
Although the principles for building mechanical walkers are the same at both scales, the benefit of scaling up is how it magnifies issues with designs, providing feedback for fine tuning that is not available at LEGO-scale.
TrotBot
Team TrotBot
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Welcome to DIYwalkers! We started by building Joe Klann's amazingly robust Mechanical Spider, Theo Jansen's majestic Strandbeest and our own TrotBot and Strider mechanisms in LEGO. Then a team from our school attempted to scale up TrotBot in our garage which resulted in a much deeper "learning experience". Hopefully our tools and lessons-learned can help you with designing and building mechanical walkers with greater functionality. Good luck building and thanks for your interest! |
Navigating DIYwalkers
Since launching in 2016, DIYwalkers has grown organically as we conducted more experiments and added more builds. Here's an overview to help you with navigating the site.
Navigating DIYwalkers
Since launching in 2016, DIYwalkers has grown organically as we conducted more experiments and added more builds. Here's an overview to help you with navigating the site.
- Walker ABCs is a high-level overview of how mechanical walkers work, or fail to work.
- Our Blog posts go into more detail on specific problems/solutions, experiments, and ideas for taking walkers to the next level.
- Build Instructions provides linkage plans and LEGO Technic building instructions for a variety of walkers.
- Customize provides interactive simulators to modify walking mechanisms for building in LEGO and other robot building mediums, or for 3D printing.
- Linkage Simulation breaks down how to simulate linkages, and provides sample code in Python and Scratch.
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Strider Ver 3