Prismatic Walker

For my Informal Robotics class, the first couple of assignments were learning and working on prismatic structures.
Throughout several assignments, we used lamination techniques and 3D printing to make different prismatic structures, and by the end I made a “walking” prismatic using 2 servo motors.

Simple folding cardboard laminated prismatic structure.

New prismatic design - no servo motors

Final prismatic design with servos; the movement should be symmetric, so it shouldn’t move forward; however, for some imbalance within the mechanism or friction imbalance, it ends up “walking” forward a little bit.