Stepper motors use a lot of power and don't deliver much power. You'll have
to gear them down, what a lot of work. Servos are really much nicer, and a
Scott Edwards serial servo controller(or three) would make interfacing easy.

Do you have some algorithms in mind for dealing with 6 legs, 3 axes? It
seems a phenomenal task, but I'm not an inspired programmer.
-Bob

At 05:01 PM 7/12/97 -0700, you wrote:
>My dream is to build a hexapod robot but with 3 degrees of freedom on each
>leg, 18 servos is a little out of my budget.  Is there any way to control
>18 bipolar steppers from a Basic Stamp 2.  I would like to conserve I/O
>pins too so a serial device would be perfect.
>Thanx
>Chiu Fang
>chao@intergate.bc.ca
>
>

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