CEO, Mechanical Engineer, Programmer
Ethan Chen, Aiyung Chen
LabVIEW, C++, Figma
Mechanical Design, Robotics Programming, Graphic Design, Entrepreneurship
I study mechanical engineering at Nation Cheng Kung University. We have a required capstone course - Mechanical Engineering Project - where the department provides us 10,000 NTD (roughly 300 USD), asking us to make and integrate a legged robot and an auto carrier vehicle to complete a given task in a limited time.
For the course's competition, we need to build two robots. One is a legged robot that is controlled by a human, the other is a wheeled robot that runs autonomously once activated.
We were among the 21 groups, the only two groups that decided to make a hexapod. We chose to make a hexapod because we wanted a challenge. We have a fantastic team anyway. We were confident that we can deliver a great hexapod, and we did.
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Since we need to grab target items, I came up with several ideas that keeps actions simple while giving it a clean look.
Some early sketches I drew.
We decided to make prototypes despite having only three months to build the robot because we knew we needed to purchase higher-quality motors. With many experiments done with the prototype, we learned many lessons and were more confident about our design, including our program written in C++.
The protype of our hexapod: arm and legs.
Our hexapod was undoubtedly the star of the demo day. It attracted many people to come and ask us about the robot, and many commented it was the best-looking and the best-made robot shown on the day.
Our final product — the hexapod.
Loosely designed in Figma and coded in Visual Studio Code by yours truly. Built with React Router and Tailwind CSS, deployed with Vercel. All text is set in the Inter typeface.
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