Lovely Orbular Hexapod Gets PopSci Attention
December 14th, 2011 by SBThe mighty works of Zenta, the Norwegian hexapod mastermind covered previously in these humble pages, have been discovered by none other than one of the the shining bastions of all things awesome, Popular Science. You all can now say you knew Zenta when.
It’s nice to see that the morphing robot has come such a long way since July.
MorpHex is the brainchild of Norwegian engineer Kare Halvorsen, aka Zenta, who chronicles his robot-building experience on his blog. It started as a cut-up globe from Toys ‘R’ Us, and now it has 25 servos and a Basicmicro ARC-32 board, which is not yet programmed to roll. But Halvorsen said that’s his next step. Watch it fold up its arms into a sphere and then gently unfold them to walk.
We have a spiffy little interview with Zenta, The Man Himself, which you may peruse if you care to do so.
Everybody congratulate Bentern on scooping Pop Sci, then tell him to GET BACK TO WORK.
