Although I consider this a successful attempt at building, the darned thing was so slow and clumbsy I got bored with it and lost interest. It consisted of three technic 9 volt mini motors linked through a series of gears to run the front and rear sets of legs separately in pairs, and lift and lower the right and left legs in unison. The idea was to run the lift motor to lift and lower the appropriate legs, (the front left and rear right legs were pairs to move the same, as was the front right and rear left. So one motor controlled the lifting of all four legs) then use the front and back motors to either run in unison to walk one step forward or backward, or to run separately to actually sort of side step and therefore the model could actually steer. Although it never graduated the learning process to walk on it's own, it walked quite well (but slow) when using direct control thru the joystick on the computer. The name was derived from Quad (meaning four) and Ped (pedestrian) 1 (meaning the first successful walk) and the B (meaning there were modifications to the first model). Hopefully some day I'll be ambitious enough to start on project Quadraped1C or even Quadraped2A. Who knows?
Sighhh.......
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