Hexapod Tracking Video 2

This video is demonstrating a new behavior; the robot will now track any pink object. The robot will walk forward if the object gets too far away and will walk backwards if the object gets too close.
Code available at: github.com/davidhend/Hexapod
Build Details at: www.instructables.com/id/Ardui...

[@a330turbinex7]

Superb!!!

[@toskr-r4t]

Looking very good :)
I'm still on the drawing board with my model, I was originally working on a Quadruped based purely on the costs saving of only animating 4 legs instead of 6. But having done some research I decided to put it on the back burner for now until I have a lot more experience and refocusing on a slow Hexapod build.
I have done some crude table top load tests on some TowerPro micro servos (MG90, SG90 and the new SG92) and have been very disappointed with the results. Of the 3 types the SG92 was the strongest of the 3 and i am as confident as i can be these are genuine tower pro. The MG90 are almost certainly poor clones as they came from a Hong Kong source via eBay and barely function at all (I will never learn lol). Not sure about the SG90. They perform better than the MG90 but the gears strip long before the motor stalls. I will be up-scaling the model to use the standard size servo. Just need to make a decision on the servo to use.

[@magnuswootton6181]

gears strip before the motor stalls??? that sounds terrible! but the bigger the motors the more power they chew up, so it can be an unbelievable power bill running a stronger robot, all servos in parallel.