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Re:Stanford Pupper: low-cost quadruped robot by billconan on Sunday May 03, 2020 @01:24PM (#23060441)
For carbon fiber parts (used for the chassis and legs), I wonder if it is possible to carve them out out from the same power distribution PCB board. Some PCB manufacture seems to support custom shapes.

But the PCB material must be heavier than carbon fiber, not sure if it will affect the robot dynamics.

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Re:Stanford Pupper: low-cost quadruped robot by NathanKau on Sunday May 03, 2020 @03:46PM (#23061343)
Just for fun I uploaded the top and bottom body panel DXFs to jlcpcb and they're only about $2 each. That's compared to about $30 to have them cut out of carbon fiber, and of course you don't get to put circuity like your power distribution on it for free.
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