Previously posted in HN [0] about how I was going to build a robot dog and document every second of it for Youtube.<p>Wasn't sure if there's interest for this type of content amongst our community but that post was my most upvoted post in personal history (not a huge number but I'll take it). Was really excited and it's super encouraging to see other people upvote/follow along :)<p>In this part 2 I finally assembled the first leg, did some last minute CAD redesign to eliminate parts, and starting coding the servos. Ran into a ton of issues around properly initializing servos and position control, and then leg kinematics and how to model a walking motion also kicked my ass. I've left all of it in the footage, unedited, because I think someone might learn from it (?) or at least question my decisions (which would be a good exercise too).<p>Video is super long. My inspiration was watching George Hotz programming videos (hours long) which I really enjoy and thought there should be a hardware equivalent<p>[0] - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482886">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482886</a>