"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
I’m kind of fascinated by the whole “balancing robot” thing so I found Dan Piponi’s Equibot to be pretty interesting. It uses a single Sharp infrared distance sensor to measure the distance to the ground, and tries to maintain that distance via by driving a pair of modified servo motors with an Atmel ATMEGA chip.
Nifty stuff. I hope to see Dan at a future Hacker’s Conference.
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