Michael Jansen- A dancing robot
As a part of my first semester at Columbia University, we designed a dancing robot based off of Boston Dynamics' dancing robot video. It involved basic sketching to come up with ideas and then use SolidWorks to design the robots in 3D and get them printed using the 3D printers that were provided to us.
This was followed by using a Raspberry Pi to interface with the servos and control the robots. We went ahead with using the Jansen mechanism as our base as we wanted stability as well as just use a couple of motors to control the movement. This ensured that we could use more motors for controlling the hands and provide more degrees of freedom for dancing.
You can check out the final video at: https://youtu.be/erLCOFPFAjo