Vorpal - 3D Printed Robotic Arduino Based Hexapod

I've been waiting to build this awesome robot for months now, and it's finally time to show you guys what it's all about:

JGAurora A5S:

(Teal and Grey)

All items needed:

Screws:
12 x socket head cap screw, 2.5mm diameter by 8mm long
5 x #6-32 x 1/2" screw
6 x #6-32 x 1/2" screw

Source Files:

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[briananichowski]

Of recent, there has not been a lot on YouTube that made me have a serious belly laugh. This is terrific. I am totally going to build this. Thanks Joe for showing this off. Your enthusiasm about this is infectious.

[Bard-Ove]

Vorpal is a totally awesome project. Built it with my son this Christmas from parts sourced from AliExpress/eBay. Some of the parts were a bit different so we had to do some small modifications, but wasnt too hard. Also the code is easy to understand and to mod. We built with a joystick as the key D-pad didnt arrive in time.

[spikekent]

Thats fantastic Joe, I saw this months ago and was very tempted, now even more so.
You videos are getting better every time mate, very nice indeed.

[sbean]

Love your videos! I had my daughter watch this and now we are going to have our first project together! She is 8 so this is going to be fun and a great learning experience for both of us.

[jigsawscience]

Whoa! That's cool! In Philadelphia, there was a robotics/3D-printing class that I attended, and Vorpal Robotics was teaching it! I got to 3D print my own attachments for the drawing-contest, and my robot got first place on one of the three trials because of the intricate design of the attachment! :D

[thelookingglass]

As usual, just blown away! Thanks for sharing Joe! Certainly a "a must do project" as soon as health an work issues are solved.
Thumbs up from the looking glass

[christelledeneau]

Awesome robot !! Thanks Joe for letting us discover this.I think I will try to build it as well.

[ryangill]

Awesome build. I'm loving the addition of microcontrollers!

[koli]

that timelapse stop motion style at the beginning is sweet

What an awesome project. Sure kids will like it. Thank you for the share.

[wirekat]

I have always wanted to build one of those! You're killin' me Joe!

[jim.c]

Joe this robot is awesome that intro was so fun to watch

[ScraggleRoc]

Excellent video my friend, really made me smile like a kid. Thank you.

[MakerFarmNL]

Very nice video Joe. Love these projects! Thanks!

[TheSecurity]

That's just so cool! My lil dude uses scratch Jr so it might be time for him to level up for something like this

[bwilliams]

Great video. Going to do this with my daughter and son. Thinking of PETG for the parts. What do you think?

[darren]

what a tune for the weekend nice one joe and great vid

[mcbaink]

Thank you for this great video. Can you tell me how you pair the HC05 Bluetooth Modules?

[filipecarvalho]

Cool project. Just a comment on buying parts:
I bought small plastic servos multiple times online and from reputable sources and I must say the servos I normally buy on ebay, banggood, etc... are very inconsistent. Bare in mind I am only talking about the smaller plastic ones. I got some that worked very well and others in which the driver burned down just from powering it on once, some in which the gears where defective and rattled their way to oblivion and some that simply did not work. The most common problem is that, with the same control setup, they were off by, sometime, 30º from what it is was expected. Even when buying from the same seller, they get different batches and one time you get perfectly good parts and the next one they are all garbage.
I am not in anyway telling you not to buy parts from ebay, I myself continue to do it and it is much more cost effective than other sources. I am just saying that servos specifically I prefer to just get them from reputable sources because, even though they are more expensive, they normally have better quality control. And since I do this as a hobby and my focus is to have fun doing it, I prefer not to waste my time having issues that can be avoided.
Of course, to each is own and some people might not have the money for that but I just wanted to share my experience for the ones that are weighting both options.
In this particular case I do believe, if you have the means, you should buy it from the guys that took the time to make something cool and opened it to everyone :)

[Lasseu]

i probably have all of those parts on my inverntoy, well servos have been coming for a month now and, well only thing im missing is that 12 port pwm driver, but i got few 2003 that i could use instead. but what i dont have, is time!! :/