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Just for interests sake, they also have a VEX version of the same spider design: https://www.hexbug.com/vex/hexbug-vex-robotics-spider.html which may be more amenable to hacking. We just finished building one of the VEX structures and it seems quite sturdy yet forgiving (2 and 5 year child old test...

@craigching I am very interested in doing exactly what you are talking about here. Have you completed the spider bot? I am a complete noob here, where should I start? I haven't finished it yet, I am finishing up a project for work, then I'm back at this :) My kids are wondering the same thing ;) Ri...

Awesome, thanks a lot Dave, I really appreciate the help I get here!

I have my DRV8835 all pinned up and I'm ready to start playing with motors :D I have two of these motors . The wiki has this page about a dual DC motor driver. Is that and the accompanying pwm module going to be a good start for me? I have separate power for the motors (4 AAA battery holder) and I a...

Well, ideally you would just hook it up to the hexbug. I don't know what motors it uses - have you got a decent link to the one you have? There are a lot of different hexbugs in many different sizes and shapes. Ah, yes, that would be good information ;) This is it: https://www.hexbug.com/hexbug-spi...

Great, thanks Jon! I have already read that and other posts of yours, you're doing very cool stuff! :D IR vs. Sonar, yeah, I was thinking I'd prefer IR to sonar, but there is already a driver for the sonar so I'll work with that first. Any motors you'd suggest I work with that motor controller? I wa...

Hi all, I'm an electronics neophyte looking for an introduction with a fairly simple robotics project for me and my kids. I love the idea of pythonic robotics and I just received my board a few days ago. I thought as an introduction a hex bug spider hack might not be too hard for me and it would rea...