RSSBotka balancing robot
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Dec 5, 2007 04:00 PM
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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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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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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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Seriously though, this is brilliant--especially the bounce recovery bit. Magic!
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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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Remind anyone else of a Segway?
Maybe you could make yourself a Segway for super cheap.
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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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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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Where can I find more info on how this was built??
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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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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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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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