Radio Psychedelica

Connection hit a new low today - 4800 bps. No, I did not drop a zero or two. Office is not wired with twisted pair and the ambient electromagnetic background is noisy. Very noisy.
It was like a time warp to 1979.

I worked out how to chain my sence whisker gearing together in such fashion as to act like simple neurons. This immediately makes me think of changing the design from a wheeled crawler to a hexapod walker.
As a quick count, I should have a touch sensor on the belly, and one on each shin, and one of each foot.Plus probably a couple to sence 'muscle' contractions.
From a construction standpoint, the only fiddly piece is the mutilated ratchet ; I shall have to devise a method for constructing them en masse.

In terms of a walker, I am rather struck with the appearance of RHex.