{"id":25416,"date":"2019-04-17T11:59:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=25416"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:20:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:20:03","slug":"fpga-based-hexapod-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/fpga-based-hexapod-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"FPGA-Based Hexapod Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Adam Taylor created and published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackster.io\/adam-taylor\/hexapod-robot-fpga-based-solution-2c41b5\">Hexapod Robot<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackster.io\/\">Hackster.io<\/a>, using a\u00a0<a class=\"hckui__typography__linkBlue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hackster.io\/digilent\/products\/cora-z7-10\" data-ha=\"{&quot;eventName&quot;:&quot;Clicked link&quot;,&quot;customProps&quot;:{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;Digilent Cora Z7-10&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;\/digilent\/products\/cora-z7-10&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;part&quot;,&quot;location&quot;:&quot;things&quot;},&quot;clickOpts&quot;:{&quot;delayRedirect&quot;:true}}\">Digilent Cora Z7-10\u00a0<\/a>(as well as a few other materials). His goal was to &#8220;show how to build a walking hexapod robot that would be\u00a0controlled by a heterogeneous SoC, and that combined ARM processors with programmable logic. The finished product is capable of walking and navigating around its environment using sonar and IMU.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"735\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rdaomdI0OgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Creating a two degree-of-freedom (DoF) hexapod can be tricky, but his project goes into extensive detail and instruction on how to go about building his creation. In addition to using the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/cora-z7-zynq-7000-single-core-and-dual-core-options-for-arm-fpga-soc-development\/\">Cora Z7<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0as the controller, it also employs a\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 14px;\" href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmodmaxsonar-maxbotix-ultrasonic-range-finder\/\">Pmod MAXSONAR<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0and a\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 14px;\" href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-nav-9-axis-imu-plus-barometer\/\">Pmod Nav<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"> to help the bot &#8220;see&#8221; and react to its environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25418\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25418 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cora-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-wp-pid=\"25418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cora-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cora.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cora Z7 integrated with PWM shield.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Make sure you check out the full project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackster.io\/adam-taylor\/hexapod-robot-fpga-based-solution-2c41b5\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-25416 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='25416' data-nonce='c69391fac1' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-25416 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-25416 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='25416' data-nonce='c69391fac1' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-25416 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-25416 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make a hexapod robot with Cora!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":25417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4327,35,1563],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4485],"class_list":["post-25416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","category-fpga","category-guide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/hex-e1539377928302.jpg","authors":[{"term_id":4485,"user_id":36,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mirandamay7","display_name":"Miranda Hansen","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bcab037c32924b9f9b3ca4898e179f2764cb7d9a82aa2bd475170c8aaa884e1c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25416"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=25416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}