Strategy

My strategy was to take the same concept and use Circuit Wizard, CAD and CAM to produce my own version. The company that produce these penguin robots is called parallax. The robot is now discontinued and alas the Penguin Robot has been consigned to an antartic grave. And the website still shows pictures of the robot and it's parts, which were useful in helping me understand the mechanisms at play in order to make my own. See below:



Strategy Continued...



So I started to have a bit of a scribble to see how I might go about it.  The first thing I noticed is that my PCB was much bigger and I would have to size everything else around that...

I created to first simple paper drawings around the dimensions of the PCB:

And started thinking about what sort of resources I would need:

I bought a servo so I could measure it and dimension the chassis around it. Kindly the servo manufacturers had done that for me on the inside of the packet. So I added a few more missing measurements to that 2D drawing see below:

One of the things I had already done was to make the Lower Servo Horn Extension in the Dimension Fuse Deposition Molding Machine:

To make sure that I would have enough time to fit in all the manufacturing and in case the machines were being heavily used by other deadline chasers!

This meant that I also had to design the rest of the project around that, or mold another to size afterwards. I chose the former. So I started to think about how I would make the ball links fit into the legs whilst keeping the Chassis bespoke to the size of the servos...