I searched a bit now to see if any new projects have shown up. Came across this one: https://hackaday.io/project/167845-mjbots-quad Could maybe be interesting, but I haven't looked into it.
Here is a chinese motor manufacturer that makes more sane motors: http://www.gyems.cn/product.html
Getting a drone or gimbal working properly from scratch is a lot of work. And these dynamic walking systems are more complex endeavors because there is less info out there. So I would recommend to find some project with people who seems talented and has a nice atmosphere and then get building :)
edit: Ratholed on this, here is a nice blog with inspiration (scroll for lots of awesome) https://build-its-inprogress.blogspot.com/
Thanks! Yeah, the electronics is a bit gross. This build was probably 6 years ago perhaps? I got it to the point that it worked and then it was kinda "done" and all that was left was polish, but it was really a toy so there wasn't much point and I left it.
Planning on building something for slug and snail control (NW UK, they can be a problem), and cat/badger/squirrel scaring in my garden (they dig up things). Will likely make use of PCBs with this so will check out the links.
> Here is a chinese motor manufacturer that makes more sane motors: http://www.gyems.cn/product.html
So I did some digging and found this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/user/SkyentificTube/videos
He does a some testing of some Turnigy motors (a bit like this: https://hobbyking.com/en_us/turnigy-aerodrive-sk3-6374-149kv..., there's a whole range) which looked cool, and he was using an odrive controller https://odriverobotics.com/ which also looked pretty handy, so there's some stuff to check out there, but he also did some tests with some gyems motors and they looked great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQJeg87ff8
> dynamic walking systems are more complex
Given the speed of slugs and snails I am going to probably go for a less dynamic movement style. Less force, smaller motors, longer battery life. Though I like the idea of trying to program dynamic movement. The physical build for my more static movement style shouldn't be too hard to do.
> https://build-its-inprogress.blogspot.com/
Thanks, this is great!