Welcome to Dr.QP’s documentation!

Dr.QP /'dɑktər kjup/ [DAHK-tuhr kyoop] is a hexapod robot inspired by PhantomX Hexapod Mark III — Multi-Legged Robotic Platform built from scratch using XYZrobot A1-16 servos (a clone of Robotis AX-12 speed wise with AX-18 torques) and 3D printed parts

Check out the Development documentation section for further information, as well as Getting Started with the project.

Note

This is my hobby project, so no guarantees of any kind. I made it public in a hope that it will be useful to someone.

If you’d like to contribute, check out the GitHub repository. Your contributions are welcome!

Project is licensed under MIT license, so you are free to use it for any purpose, as long as you include the original copyright and license notice in any copy of the software/source.

• Getting Started
  • Dev machine setup
  • Setting up Raspberry Pi for the Robot
  • Ansible Playbooks for ROS 2 Setup
• Development documentation
  • Product specification
  • Dr.QP CAD designs
  • Kinematics model
  • Notes
• How-tos
  • Augment Context Engine MCP
  • Install VSCode tunnel as service
  • ROS2 containers and networking
  • Running ROS GUI tools remotely using X11 forwarding
  • Running ROS GUI tools with Xpra in containers
  • RPi Power management - UPS Shield
  • Issue using act and devcontainers/ci