Dancing Robotic Snake

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Designing and building this snake was my final year Mechanical Engineering project at Imperial College London. The project was split into two halves: mechanical design, for which I was responsible, and control, for which a fellow student was in charge. The two halves of the project were developed under a common specification.

The mechanical development involved some acute challenges, not least the shoe-string budget of £150, but also minimising weight, and introducing a moment-compensation system using a fixed suspended mass beneath the snake. This compensation system enabled the use of much smaller and cheaper motors to achieve the same functionality for much lower cost.

​The snake particularly loved to dance to Brick House by the Commodores.