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Botka balancing robot

A simple balancing robot build out of a GyroMax R/C car.

Botka, The Barely Standing Robot - [via] Link

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Posted by: Chris Tucker on December 5, 2007 at 5:17 PM

Dean Kamen, you have been pwn3d by a toy car.

Have a nice day!

Seriously, that is one of the neatest hacks I have seen in quite a while.

Well done!

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Posted by: Bob Darlington on December 5, 2007 at 6:04 PM

Very cool, dude. I'm pretty darn impressed. How does this thing handle ramps? Going down stairs?

Keep up the great work,
Bob

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Posted by: Jake of All Trades on December 5, 2007 at 8:03 PM

I can't wait till Mattel steals this idea and I can buy a Barbie's Dream Segway on clearance for $7.95 to hack around with :D

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Posted by: Jake of All Trades on December 5, 2007 at 8:07 PM

Seriously though, this is brilliant--especially the bounce recovery bit. Magic!

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Posted by: theRIAA on December 5, 2007 at 8:28 PM

WHAT, thats insane! doesn't seem like it would cost much more to mass produce these...

put a roll cage on that thing and kick it around, does it ever fall?

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Posted by: Erik Lindemann on December 5, 2007 at 11:33 PM

Remind anyone else of a Segway?

Maybe you could make yourself a Segway for super cheap.

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Posted by: ardo on December 6, 2007 at 5:26 AM

I wish I could do something like that, I'd build a SteadyCam for my camcorder. Make something useful out of something that's just cool...

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Posted by: fosho4 on December 6, 2007 at 9:02 AM

That is really amazing.

Yea. I'm looking forward to this thing being mass produced and hopefully the guy that made this will get some of the credit. Probably not though.

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Posted by: Matt on December 6, 2007 at 1:56 PM

Where can I find more info on how this was built??

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Posted by: darus67 on December 6, 2007 at 9:27 PM

I am in awe. I wish I had the skills to program a 'bot that could do something half that cool.

I'd love to study the source code for this thing.

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Posted by: Jordan on December 7, 2007 at 10:47 AM

Please post the source code for this!!! The stability leads me to believe that some really intelligent filtering was used and I am interested to know how this was done (kalman filters?).

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Posted by: Vince on January 8, 2008 at 5:12 PM

I think the main reason why it's so fast and stable is it's weight. Seems made of plastic.
For more info about 2 wheels robots (inverted pendulum), look for nbot on google, there are some interesting links there.

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