The guts of this are controlled via an Arduino Mega 2560, with copious amounts of hot glue on display in true hacker style.

The Arduino Mega 2560 R3 is positioned on a suspended platform, with the anodes controlled on the Digital Pins as opposed to the cathodes on remapped AnalogInputs.

Hexapod robot Watch this video on YouTube. “I designed, built, and programmed an Arduino powered hexapod from scratch over the last 3 months, and this video takes you through that journey!

It's of course backwards compatible with existing Arduino add-ons, but sets itself apart with a new USB controller with lower latency and driver-free operation on Mac and Linux.