Symapod

jbot: Thanks. That 1 pic you are talking about the robot is posed. With the friction of the RC servo gears it could hold the robot up, which is nice since standing then took very little power. The pcb inside of the RC servos were replaced by digital servo controllers of my own design which could detect the floor and thus maintain a level walk over uneven terrain.

borah: My design was not hard to do. The golden parts of the leg are simple brass strips from the hobby shop bent with pliers and drilled. I used Socket Head Cap Screws to put together. Some of the servos are attached to each other by opening the servo cases and drilling a bit, it's not hard and I explain this on my website. The base is made from pcb board and then painted gold and red. The cpu is on the underside of the robot. Simplicity is the key!

Lynxmotion has some good kits for making this style of hexapod so it's the easiest way to get up and running.

My digital servo design inspired openservo, a much more complete and better open-source digital servo controller. Check out http://www.openservo.org/

You can get more info on my website http://www.colinmackenzie.net/