balancer

Making a balancing robot - or even dreaming of making one just lost it's appeal.. because I will never make anything like this.,

I was just cleaning up my desk (a little anyway), and found myself sitting with the guts from a servo.

In essense I had:

A potmeter. If it was turned to one side, a motor would turn to one side, and vise versa. A little turning = a slow motor, hard turn = fast motor.

Hmm.. interesting..

Now, what if I was not turning this potmeter, but a simple spinning disc, acting like a simple gyroscope was attached to it?

Then if the whole thing was tilting in one direction, a motor.. OR a complete servo (with guts taken out) would turn to one direction.

It starts of as "Just another balancer" copying the segway gait. Then it continiues to roll up its hip and stand on one spine, before it elegantly scoots up the stairs... I'm impressed.