{"id":607,"date":"2013-04-08T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T18:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2013-04-08T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T18:39:13","slug":"project-hexapod-update-432013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/project-hexapod-update-432013\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Hexapod Update: 4\/3\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our biggest update from this week is that we&#8217;ve just been sponsored by Tompkins Industries! Literally 15 seconds before we were about to place a giant order for hoses and fittings to finish our power unit, Tompkins Industries showed up and asked how they can help. Tompkins is a global suppliers of hydraulic adapters and fittings (among many other components) with 99% same-day fulfillment from stock, and are the perfect partners to work with for this phase of the project. Thanks Tompkins!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tompkinsind.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-608\" title=\"Tompkins Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tompkins-Logo-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tompkins-Logo-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tompkins-Logo-1024x698.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tompkins-Logo.jpg 1760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We worked with Tompkins Industries to get hydraulic fittings and hoses in-house to complete the power unit, and spent our week doing hydraulic assembly. In this update, we&#8217;ll show you our progress so far, explain a little bit more about the hydraulic system, and teach you how to assemble hydraulic fittings into a working system. Check it all out here:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RDUs-s4bmxQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/center>Next week, we&#8217;ll be working on finishing some modifications to the structure of the power unit to attach batteries, accumulator mounting brackets, and lift points, and we&#8217;ll also be testing the prototype leg with the new orifice-reduction fittings James mentioned in his last post. We&#8217;re now waiting on some specialty hydraulic parts to finish off the power unit, but once those parts arrive, we&#8217;ll be ready to test the unit for the first time!<\/p>\n<p>-Gui<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our biggest update from this week is that we&#8217;ve just been sponsored by Tompkins Industries! Literally 15 seconds before we were about to place a giant order for hoses and fittings to finish our power unit, Tompkins Industries showed up and asked how they can help. Tompkins is a global suppliers of hydraulic adapters and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/project-hexapod-update-432013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Project Hexapod Update: 4\/3\/2013<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projecthexapod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}