I built a walking hexapod with four servos for a course before my Batchelor's degree. Custom made all the body out of aluminium, it looked like something off that film, Virus, I think it was called. It wasn'r autonomous though, that would be nice.
My degree was in electrical & electronic engineering and I have 7 years pre-degree experience as a technician, and two after as a development engineer, so if you need any electronics advice I'll do my best
. I also have experience with various microcontrollers and small processors, programmed in Assembly and C.
I want to build a CNC machine when I get a better machine shop setup, I think they count as robots! I have one but it's only really suited to making PCBs due to the depth limitation.
I suppose I'm a bit of a nerd :S... I'm better at that than weights at least
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