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angry tapir writes "Identifying a gap in the market has been the key to many successful open source projects. In the case of the participants in Project Hexapod, a group of robotics enthusiasts based at the Artisan Asylum makerspace in Massachusetts, they identified a clear lack of six-legged, rideable robots. Members of Project Hexapod, which comprises three instructors, one teaching assistant, and 15 students, are building a robot dubbed ‘Stompy’: A arachnid-esque, six-legged, 1800kg hydraulic robot. Stompy will be 18 feet wide and will seat two people and have a ground clearance of six feet. The project has a Kickstarter page to raise funds. Project Hexapod will be “releasing our plans, our CAD, our diagrams, the presentations from all the lectures we gave in class, our lists of materials and parts” under an open source licence."
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