Personal Robot Building

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by SteveO

You could make it balance on two wheels with a gyro (much like the segway does). There are probably several threads on here about that. It is something I am working on right now. I am curious what you are using as a control system, or are you that far along yet? Good luck

for the control system i may buy a robot controller operator interface and the radios and motor controllers from my robotics club because they r the first ones we had and we have no use for them

the RC and OI are both the ones from 2000 i think and they are programmed in BASIC which is perfect for me so i can learn to program easily with out jump right into a language like C

the motor controllers are just the old 883's that first doesnt allow any more, we have like 20-30 of them just laying around and our techer that deals with all robotics stuff says he may strike a deal with me since a single student building their own robot is not that common and he wants everyone to succeed to their fullest so it will be a bit of money but it is worth it because the possibilities for this are endless


and about the gyro, it is possible it is just hard because like in the segway the gyros i think use the peltier effect with a sensor that measures the movement of the electrons and to use conventional spinning gyros requires some major motor speeds and stabilizors to control it easily