Contact Us

Be forewarned – we all have day jobs, plus this crazy project, so it may be a little while before we can get back to you. That being said, feel free to email us to support the cause!

Our hexapod is being built at Artisan’s Asylum – if you join up and become a member in the next four months, you will probably find us building and testing absurdly large contraptions. Artisan’s Asylum is located at:

10 Tyler Street
Somerville, MA 02143


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  1. control issues

    hey guys,
    my experience with hydraulics is limited to the work i’ve done on my car’s brakes, butt, the principals are the same. if you have even a pin head sized air bubble anywhere in the line the whole system is corrupt. air in brake lines make for a spongy unresponsive pedal. air in stompy’s lines will result in spastic jerking (huh, “jerking” [insert beavis laugh]) and unpredictable motion, like a mental patient off their meds. methodical bleeding of the lines is paramount.

    so, what i’m saying is… if you haven’t already done so, don’t waste any more time until all the air is out of the system…all of the air.

    anyway, that’s just my two cents worth.
    looking forward to the next update.
    -steve

    be aware of moisture too. water contamination of the hydraulic oil will foul the entire system with similar results.

  2. Man, you guys are truly living the dream! Can’t wait to see this in the end! Hey, maybe in the future, this will replace cars and save gas! Well, if Stompy doesn’t run on gas. But anyways I wish you all with the greatest of luck! When I’m about 28 I’ll get one of these bad boys! If you do make more though, which I bet you will!
    Thanks for reading!

  3. In your next update you should go into some more detail on what the performance upgrade will entail since you received the funding for it 🙂 Can’t wait to hear from you guys again!

  4. For the love of god, UPDATE! 🙂

    You guys have taken a great, structured approach thus far. We’re stoked to see how this is progressing.

    1. Yep! Unfortunately, most of what we’ve done so far looks the same – which is welding, grinding, welding, grinding, and more welding. We’re just about done and ready to assemble the full-size leg though, so keep an eye out in the next few days!

    1. We’ve seen the Mantis and it is awesome. We did a prior art search when we started this project and didn’t find them… they were still in stealth mode. Apparently they’ve been at it since 2009!

      We were never the first giant hexapod though… check out OSU’s Adaptive Suspension Vehicle, or the Timberjack. The existence of other hexapods does not detract from our primary mission, which is to build in a way that enables others to follow and improve.

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