O. M. G. This robot was the reason why I got into hexapods years ago. I was even interested in buying one but seeing the creator himself walk through it….SUBSCRIBED
I remember that robot so clearly! It was one of my biggest inspirations while growing up and it got me into basic robotics tinkering myself. Now I'm working at a robotics company! Thank you.
I have fond memories of I.C. hexapod and it's life like movement. 14 years ago, having seen this robot, I reached out to you for some assistance in building my very first hexapod. You were extremely helpful and really inspired me. I've now been working in robotics for 10 years, so thank you very much Matt.
That's a beautifully designed robot! Also I assume you are going to make a video about the Time Machine you obviously have made, because it didn't look like you have aged much in 15 years
Really awesome to see your hexapods in a video again! Those little details like the leg twitching make the robot seem so alive. I'm working on a uBug-inspired hexapod at the moment, which has a camera and a Raspberry Pi for onboard-processing.
That is cool. As you said, it's the little things like backing away that makes it seem more 'real'. I'd love to see a 'v2' of this so that you could not only comment about how your own skills have developed but how both the fabrication and technology etc has changed.
Great video and demonstration of your cute and adorable hexapod, Matt! Love all the details. Reminds me of how fast the time go though.. Would really love to see some more of your hexapods. Like the larger one with the cnc mill and terrain ability. Cheers 👍
This blows me away. Like your stuff usually does, incredibly impressive, but this little guy still working so well after so long offline and probably stored somewhere... I wouldn't even know where to start with this kinda thing lol
That's amazing for the time it was done. Nowadays I feel like similar could be done with a Jetson Nano, a lipo, and some chi charging. There's a bomb idea I've just given away for free.
I am so happy to have found this video! I remember seeing it when it was new all those years ago and it's lived in my head all these years!! It's a brilliant piece of work
Awesome! Now I remember why I ever subscribed to your channel, it was because of this guy! One of the first hexapods I saw and started my obsession to build one too 😅 took me many years, and it's still not finished 😅
@@MattDenton almost done 😅 ruclips.net/video/53euqo_bVbA/видео.html running inverse kinematics and a lot of custom code in unity for testing, but mine can walk dynamicly based on user input now 😁 Building it wasn't the most work, the code just took me forever. Mostly since I was way to young back then and didn't have the necessary skills and experience.
I'm convinced this hexapod made an appearance at Maker Faire UK up in Newcastle back then, too (Mantis was present at a later Maker Faire, too). Either that OR there was a good effort made by someone else around the same era. There were loads of robotics on show that particular year...
That's a great bot, regarding the technology you had to work with back in the day.. I also think it says something that you have such old tech along side your mobile phone, which for its size is much more powerful.. Just something to think about - food for thought..
Would love to see a re-make of this project with modern equipment, maybe make the plans available to the public once you are done so others can re-create it.
As you mentioned, a Raspberry Pi could do all of the processing, and I bet there is a wireless charging solution that could untether it too as long as it could take a nap every once in a while. Supercaps, maybe? Giving it the ability to move around the pedestal and follow people more actively would be like having a mechanical pet. Anyone remember Aibo?
This is so cool! Would you do a tutorial on how to make a hexapod from scratch?... I've been wanting to make one myself and I'd be interested in your process 🙂
@@MrPetrovich83 Look up Kevin McAleer. He doesn't do hexapods, but he has done some small 'walking' robots like a crab which might at least be inspiration to you :-)
Would love to see more videos of your creations!!! You where such a source of inspiration when I built mine! Not to mention BB-8 ;o) BTW, I hope you have a backup of IC Hexapod hard drive; it would be too bad to loose of these faces!
It might be great to revisit this past project with a 3D printing DIY twist. A new raspberry pi 4 should be able to handle the main CPU stuff .... If not it all. Then the robot could even be wirelessly powered too .... I hope you might consider this, as I for one, would love to do that project for my den. Great channel
If you had to build one self contained in 2006, you could use a Gumstix computer module (originally PXA255, but they had newer ones by then) or Lynx (Freescale i.MX) one of several others available at the time. A true explosion in number of available SBCs came in 2008 when i think BeagleBone or BeagleBoard released, i forget which, and LinuxStamp and others. So back to 2006, the other options apart from Linux SBCs were PC104 boards, including VIA Eden, AMD Geode, and even Athlon64 if you had the power budget and needed that performance.
Yeah you may have been able to do it with a gumstix, I remember the board. But when I was developing iC I found I needed a high frame rate 20 to 25 fps to get good enough tracking ti get the effect I wanted. I do t think I would have got this with the SBC’s at the time. 🤷♂️
This is fantastic, Matt! I really love how the clever programming leads to people to anthropomorphizing. I would love to build one that follows me around the house and has google assistant built in to control my smart home devices. Like a little butler bot
You must make a video when you talk about the animatronics you did for HP 😍😍😍 or a video when you talk about the jobs you have had, would be interesting. I work with visual effects, so also with filmcreation :)
I have one almost exactly the same, mine has an ultrasonic emitter / detector instead of a camera and a pic controller on its back calling the hex engine functions, it walks with obstacle avoidance for two minutes then goes to " sleep " untill the infrareds on its legs are triggered whereupon it starts again. As its your design I must have aquired it from you ( as a kit of parts ) thank you, and like you I haven't powered it up for years......I'm looking for the charger now....
@@MattDenton So it is one of yours, cool. When first constructed I used a PS 2 controller to " drive " it remotely then later I added the pic controller to make it autonomous. I wrote a loop calling for " fwd motion " with sub routines for stop and turn or walk sideways when triggered by sensors. I learned enough about the pic basic to write the code but I couldn't do it now, its long forgotton, if it no longer works I'm sunk....
Beautiful! Any chance you're interested in selling one to a fan? Say the yellow one in the start of the video? I was obsessed with hexapods and such 15 years ago.. and never did get one
Hi. I don’t think I’ll ever sell the yellow one as it is the first one I made and names after my grandad.. I may sell one of my others but you can get them pretty cheap as kits.. obvs not one of mine..
Haha I was only just the other day contemplating making another (having sold my original to the Roland design centre in Bristol) but sadly no access to a CNC miller anymore. I can print all the parts on my Prusa I guess, but would have to drastically alter the design to maintain stiffness....
Would love to see u do a new one that could be controlled by rc and was replica of a the replicators bug I would even be open to the idea of paying you to develop one for me if u think that's something u be open to doing
Wait wait wait hold up you can’t acknowledge that technology today could take this orders of magnitude further and end with I’m going to get a quieter fan. I demand (respectfully) that you make a new free roaming hexapod!! But seriously though it could be a new series, you can do collaborations. Wait …are you already thinking of this? I hope so. I want to see it. I’m sure there’s others that do too, not to mention I want a free roaming hexapod that I could make for my own after copying everything you do.
Matt has built several free roaming hexapods. He's forgotten more about inverse kinematics and gaits than most people will ever know. I'm one of the fortunate few that procured one of his kits and the HexEngine. I slapped a Raspberry Pi on mine. But I digress, .. icHexapod still is the coolest robot I've ever seen. Here's my attempt: ruclips.net/video/ey0JLbVX9a4/видео.html&ab_channel=RayRenteria
😂.. we’ll the fan is loud 😬 I’ve thought about a free roaming version for years, the issue is it’s so low on the ground it can’t look up to see anyone! It would need to be a desktop version I think :)
No even more obvious than that! Yeah I don’t know. When we displayed iC we had a sign telling people they were on camera. And photos were taken but recognition was not used… so I’m not sure. Same as taking a photo in a public place with other people in the background 🤷♂️
I have a MSR-H01 with p.Brain, i need help to control the Hex with Arduino via PIP. The MSR-H01 is still the best Hexapod i have ever seen!! He has to stay alive!
My MSR-H01 is still sitting in our lounge - he was the first kit plate kit off the production line IIRC. He's connected up for demos with a PS2 controller, but he also has a webcam eye and I did 'sort of' get blob tracking working - (ruclips.net/video/-iTZx6y8SEE/видео.html) -I remember playing with face tracking, but don't think I ever got it working. Given that technology has moved on do you think you'd ever consider moving his brain over to an R-Pi to free him from the computer? I'd be more than happy to buy an upgrade. BTW I also have one of your orange micro (nano?) hexapod kits and PCB waiting for me to buy servos…
Hi! Yeah I remember you doing an unboxing video of the first MSR-H01! It’s a collectors piece now 😃🤔 The micro Bug is still one of my favourite Hexapods, I hadn’t realised you never built it. I’m just glad to hear the MSR is still working 👏
That cable hiding solution is great, very nifty!
Thanks 🙏
O. M. G. This robot was the reason why I got into hexapods years ago. I was even interested in buying one but seeing the creator himself walk through it….SUBSCRIBED
Oh thanks 🙏
I remember that robot so clearly! It was one of my biggest inspirations while growing up and it got me into basic robotics tinkering myself. Now I'm working at a robotics company! Thank you.
Oh that is so cool!! That has made me smile 😃
I have fond memories of I.C. hexapod and it's life like movement. 14 years ago, having seen this robot, I reached out to you for some assistance in building my very first hexapod. You were extremely helpful and really inspired me. I've now been working in robotics for 10 years, so thank you very much Matt.
Oh that’s so cool! Thanks for sharing that story 😁
I myself lose interest when there's no one to look at
😆👍
I love how that robot moves, it definitely is one of those that inspired me to build my own hexapod robot back then
Thanks! Good to hear :)
Thanks! Good to hear :)
That's a beautifully designed robot! Also I assume you are going to make a video about the Time Machine you obviously have made, because it didn't look like you have aged much in 15 years
😆.. you jest!! Or maybe the low resolution image fooled you. But thanks anyway 🙏
Really awesome to see your hexapods in a video again! Those little details like the leg twitching make the robot seem so alive. I'm working on a uBug-inspired hexapod at the moment, which has a camera and a Raspberry Pi for onboard-processing.
Excellent! The uBug was one of my favourites due to its compact size 👍
Always fun to have a basic concept like facial recognition and then building anything you want around iy
Exactly.. just amalgamation if tech!
We're impressed as well! Isn't it fun to go back to your old projects and enjoy them more than when you first made them. I find I am a kinder critic.
Absolutely 👍
That is cool. As you said, it's the little things like backing away that makes it seem more 'real'.
I'd love to see a 'v2' of this so that you could not only comment about how your own skills have developed but how both the fabrication and technology etc has changed.
Maybe a remake every decade 🤔
@@MattDenton In another 10 years, you'd probably be able to make it palm size with all the current features it has :-)
Something I’ve dreamed of for years!
Great video and demonstration of your cute and adorable hexapod, Matt! Love all the details. Reminds me of how fast the time go though.. Would really love to see some more of your hexapods. Like the larger one with the cnc mill and terrain ability. Cheers 👍
Yeah time flies eh! I would love to get the CNC hexapod working again!
This is one of the hexapods that inspired me to look at hexapods and ultimately to build my own. Thanks :)
That’s great to know :)
This blows me away.
Like your stuff usually does, incredibly impressive, but this little guy still working so well after so long offline and probably stored somewhere...
I wouldn't even know where to start with this kinda thing lol
Oh thanks 🙏 yeah I was well pleased it still worked 👍😀
this was a fascinating project and an awesome insight into the development of it
Thanks for sharing your hard work and ingenuity with us.
You’re welcome 👍
i.C. was such a major inspiration for my hexapod adventures. I can't believe it's been so long, nice to see it up and running! :)
Thanks 🙏 yeah time flys !!!
That's amazing for the time it was done. Nowadays I feel like similar could be done with a Jetson Nano, a lipo, and some chi charging.
There's a bomb idea I've just given away for free.
I am so happy to have found this video! I remember seeing it when it was new all those years ago and it's lived in my head all these years!! It's a brilliant piece of work
Oh that’s so cool to hear :)
Ha .. its about time you opensource this . 10+ years old but i suspect the IK is still a complex beast to do
It’s so out of date now! Although the IK is the same, and I’m sure it’s all out there now! So many people did this eventually which is why I stooped:)
Awesome!
Now I remember why I ever subscribed to your channel, it was because of this guy!
One of the first hexapods I saw and started my obsession to build one too 😅 took me many years, and it's still not finished 😅
😆 well you must be one of my early subs then 🙏 now finish it 😁
@@MattDenton almost done 😅
ruclips.net/video/53euqo_bVbA/видео.html running inverse kinematics and a lot of custom code in unity for testing, but mine can walk dynamicly based on user input now 😁
Building it wasn't the most work, the code just took me forever. Mostly since I was way to young back then and didn't have the necessary skills and experience.
I'm convinced this hexapod made an appearance at Maker Faire UK up in Newcastle back then, too (Mantis was present at a later Maker Faire, too). Either that OR there was a good effort made by someone else around the same era. There were loads of robotics on show that particular year...
No you’re correct. I took iC and a bunch of my Hexapods to Newcastle one year, and yes a year or so later I took the Mantis 👍
Which means you’re probably one of the 37,000 images on the hard disk :)
Wow, I can’t believe you built this in 2006
Hexapods are so awesome. Thanks for the great video.
Thanks 🙏
That's a great bot, regarding the technology you had to work with back in the day..
I also think it says something that you have such old tech along side your mobile phone, which for its size is much more powerful..
Just something to think about - food for thought..
Thanks. Yeah what you can do in a phone now! Bonkers
Wow, that's soo cool... loved your excitement on seeing it turn on. Great piece of engineering and amazing amount of inspiration... Respect
Thanks 🙏 appreciated
Amazing! I love this so realistic mouvement of the head. Please make a new one with modern electronic components
Yeah that would be cool.. 🤔
Glad he I still working.
Me too!!
Would love to see a re-make of this project with modern equipment, maybe make the plans available to the public once you are done so others can re-create it.
Trippy to compare this to what James Bruton just posted of his robot dog.
The tech has come so far.
That advance in microcontrollers is insane!
what is fantastic is now, you could have everything on board with a rpi4.
i would love to see an autonomous one with led lights.
Yeah I should look at an on board version… it would be 😎
Hey Matt, so cool to see iC working again! I’ve seen the original video so many times. Hope you will be sharing more hexapods soon.
Thanks 🙏
Super cool - amazingly smooth motion, convincingly organic 👌
Thanks 🙏
As you mentioned, a Raspberry Pi could do all of the processing, and I bet there is a wireless charging solution that could untether it too as long as it could take a nap every once in a while. Supercaps, maybe? Giving it the ability to move around the pedestal and follow people more actively would be like having a mechanical pet.
Anyone remember Aibo?
Good old Aibo! What ever happened to that ?! A desktop version with self charging would be nice
Always a gem when you upload, this was just outstanding - cheers
Thanks. Appreciated
Amazing robot! Great work👍
Thanks 🙏
Wow That's super cool. Thanks for the great video
Thanks 🙏
Crazy how a modern one can be all self contained on the robot
Yep 👍
This is so cool! Would you do a tutorial on how to make a hexapod from scratch?... I've been wanting to make one myself and I'd be interested in your process 🙂
Well I made a great deal but left all that behind many years ago. I did have a website with loads of forum info but took it down a few months back! :(
@@MattDenton ahh fair enough. I still enjoyed the video though. It's always cool to see a robot like yours that moves so similar to nature 🙂
@@MrPetrovich83 Look up Kevin McAleer. He doesn't do hexapods, but he has done some small 'walking' robots like a crab which might at least be inspiration to you :-)
I’ll check it out 👍
@@richards7909 awesome thank you! Keep up the good work 🙂
Would love to see more videos of your creations!!! You where such a source of inspiration when I built mine! Not to mention BB-8 ;o)
BTW, I hope you have a backup of IC Hexapod hard drive; it would be too bad to loose of these faces!
Thank you! Really appreciate the feedback. Yes I defo need to back it up and maybe move it onto a SDD!
very cool
Fascinating
Thanks 🙏
It might be great to revisit this past project with a 3D printing DIY twist. A new raspberry pi 4 should be able to handle the main CPU stuff .... If not it all. Then the robot could even be wirelessly powered too .... I hope you might consider this, as I for one, would love to do that project for my den. Great channel
Yeah it’s something I’ve considered! If I find time one day :)
Pulling this off today would be cool
But pulling this off >10 years ago, you would have to absolutely know your stuff
👍👍👍 😁
If you had to build one self contained in 2006, you could use a Gumstix computer module (originally PXA255, but they had newer ones by then) or Lynx (Freescale i.MX) one of several others available at the time. A true explosion in number of available SBCs came in 2008 when i think BeagleBone or BeagleBoard released, i forget which, and LinuxStamp and others. So back to 2006, the other options apart from Linux SBCs were PC104 boards, including VIA Eden, AMD Geode, and even Athlon64 if you had the power budget and needed that performance.
Yeah you may have been able to do it with a gumstix, I remember the board. But when I was developing iC I found I needed a high frame rate 20 to 25 fps to get good enough tracking ti get the effect I wanted. I do t think I would have got this with the SBC’s at the time. 🤷♂️
Super cool!
Thanks 🙏
This is fantastic, Matt!
I really love how the clever programming leads to people to anthropomorphizing. I would love to build one that follows me around the house and has google assistant built in to control my smart home devices. Like a little butler bot
Thanks! You should do it! I think there is so much more power available and better computer vision it should be possible!
i have one of your hexapods at home. i never programmed it. It just looks nice beeing a expensive thing
Cool.. a collectors piece one day 😉
Great video and description. Will there ever be another creature effects exhibition do you think?
Thanks 🙏. I don’t know but I think there should be!!
You must make a video when you talk about the animatronics you did for HP 😍😍😍 or a video when you talk about the jobs you have had, would be interesting. I work with visual effects, so also with filmcreation :)
Yeah it would be cool but hard to do without getting all the permissions.. but maybe 🤔
I have one almost exactly the same, mine has an ultrasonic emitter / detector instead of a camera and a pic controller on its back calling the hex engine functions, it walks with obstacle avoidance for two minutes then goes to " sleep " untill the infrareds on its legs are triggered whereupon it starts again. As its your design I must have aquired it from you ( as a kit of parts ) thank you, and like you I haven't powered it up for years......I'm looking for the charger now....
Yeah that would be one of my flock 😁 I did an ultrasonic example for obstacle avoidance. It’s in my hexapod playlist.
@@MattDenton So it is one of yours, cool. When first constructed I used a PS 2 controller to " drive " it remotely then later I added the pic controller to make it autonomous. I wrote a loop calling for " fwd motion " with sub routines for stop and turn or walk sideways when triggered by sensors. I learned enough about the pic basic to write the code but I couldn't do it now, its long forgotton, if it no longer works I'm sunk....
I.C. Is As Old As Me!
I Was Born In 2006!
Wow! 😬
Cool
Beautiful! Any chance you're interested in selling one to a fan? Say the yellow one in the start of the video? I was obsessed with hexapods and such 15 years ago.. and never did get one
Hi. I don’t think I’ll ever sell the yellow one as it is the first one I made and names after my grandad.. I may sell one of my others but you can get them pretty cheap as kits.. obvs not one of mine..
Haha I was only just the other day contemplating making another (having sold my original to the Roland design centre in Bristol) but sadly no access to a CNC miller anymore. I can print all the parts on my Prusa I guess, but would have to drastically alter the design to maintain stiffness....
ruclips.net/video/-uKIDyFMTyQ/видео.html
Hi Jason! Yeah I keep thinking about doing a 3D printed leg.. I think it would be pretty cool!
This reminds me of the replicators bugs from stargate sg1 and atlantis
👍
Would love to see u do a new one that could be controlled by rc and was replica of a the replicators bug I would even be open to the idea of paying you to develop one for me if u think that's something u be open to doing
I did loads of RC ones back in the day.. 😬
Cool
Wait wait wait hold up you can’t acknowledge that technology today could take this orders of magnitude further and end with I’m going to get a quieter fan.
I demand (respectfully) that you make a new free roaming hexapod!!
But seriously though it could be a new series, you can do collaborations. Wait …are you already thinking of this?
I hope so. I want to see it. I’m sure there’s others that do too, not to mention I want a free roaming hexapod that I could make for my own after copying everything you do.
Matt has built several free roaming hexapods. He's forgotten more about inverse kinematics and gaits than most people will ever know. I'm one of the fortunate few that procured one of his kits and the HexEngine. I slapped a Raspberry Pi on mine. But I digress, .. icHexapod still is the coolest robot I've ever seen. Here's my attempt: ruclips.net/video/ey0JLbVX9a4/видео.html&ab_channel=RayRenteria
😂.. we’ll the fan is loud 😬
I’ve thought about a free roaming version for years, the issue is it’s so low on the ground it can’t look up to see anyone! It would need to be a desktop version I think :)
Upgrade it or make a version 2 Robot with new and more advanced computer/microcontroller.
I’d have to make a new one.. I feel changing the original would be a crime 😂
Moin. Overwhelming what was already possible 8 years ago. But I ask myself a question: what was the obvious password?😂🤣
I wondered who might ask that.. start guessing…
@@MattDenton Password1 😀
In the last 8yrs a lot has changed around storing data. How long can you keep the photos for?
No even more obvious than that!
Yeah I don’t know. When we displayed iC we had a sign telling people they were on camera. And photos were taken but recognition was not used… so I’m not sure. Same as taking a photo in a public place with other people in the background 🤷♂️
I have a MSR-H01 with p.Brain, i need help to control the Hex with Arduino via PIP. The MSR-H01 is still the best Hexapod i have ever seen!! He has to stay alive!
Wow! Blast from the past :) should be way enough to get it working through arduino and serial port or i2c
My MSR-H01 is still sitting in our lounge - he was the first kit plate kit off the production line IIRC. He's connected up for demos with a PS2 controller, but he also has a webcam eye and I did 'sort of' get blob tracking working - (ruclips.net/video/-iTZx6y8SEE/видео.html) -I remember playing with face tracking, but don't think I ever got it working. Given that technology has moved on do you think you'd ever consider moving his brain over to an R-Pi to free him from the computer? I'd be more than happy to buy an upgrade. BTW I also have one of your orange micro (nano?) hexapod kits and PCB waiting for me to buy servos…
Hi! Yeah I remember you doing an unboxing video of the first MSR-H01! It’s a collectors piece now 😃🤔
The micro Bug is still one of my favourite Hexapods, I hadn’t realised you never built it. I’m just glad to hear the MSR is still working 👏
Awesome video!
Thank you 🙏