Balancing Bots…

January 24, 2004 | General | By: Mark VandeWettering

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.