https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT
Balance and steering while seated is solved, with a joystick anyway.
Balance and steering while seated is solved, with a joystick anyway.
Don't forget what the Segway started out as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT Balance and steering while seated is solved, with a joystick anyway. -- Drew |
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Good point.
That gizmo probably cost a lot more than $700 though. :-) But maybe balance really is a solved problem now - Self-balancing inverted pendulum with Arduino. Cheers, Scott. |
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Arduino..
appears to be the/ a?/ 'Solution' for those who eschew the messiness of learning how to connect components which mirror basic electrical/electronic functions ... on physical boards. Kinda like substituting some computer-logical decisions for the Analog matters (which matter.. awfully, sometimes) ie. Electronics-light? Guess it's better than manifest impotence (even to visualize how-it-Is that? paralleled resistances follow that simple addition of 1/x etc.) At any rate, one shall run-up-against Maxwell's equations sooner or later, or forever stay with 'light'. Right? Kinda a cute idea though, if one has the disposable income ... just to mess with one of those 2-wheel platforms in just this plug-together way.. Give it a brain and you can call out, Jeeves! bring me a Brandy Alexander, chilled ;-^> |
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:-) People are doing lots of neat things with them. There are lots of similar controllers, too.
Adafruit for $7.00 for 1. The electronics are so cheap now that just about everything electric could have various logic functions built in. Kids playing with them would seem to be this generation's Tinker Toys and Erector Sets. Cheers, Scott. |