A recent challenge by LRGoAA was to build a walker. Several years ago I had built a prototype pneumatic walker, but I could never get the COG/COM right and it would tip over while walking. But this seemed like a good opportunity to revisit my design.
Being fond of complexity, I immediately went with a six-legged walker. After some work I got a prototype unit that worked surprisingly well, but was slow and had several nagging design problems.
I redesigned it slightly and rebuilt the prototype into a "final" unit. Unfortunately, while the final design was vastly superior on paper, when it came to actually functioning it was a major step backwards. It never did perform nearly as well as the prototype for just walking. Something of a disappointment, so I'm certain I'll attempt this again in the future.