pic: Perfectly Timed Ball Levitation

[SoftwareBug2.0]

Originally Posted by BBray_T1296

A kid on our team suggested "Bernoulli Bot" a bot that operates by floating the ball above it via a large fan.
To go over the truss, simply rev it up and puss the ball higher. Momentum and Bernoulli's principle would keep the ball centered above the robot.

Of course it is one of those joke ideas. We are NOT building a robot to do this

We tried this with a big fan on day 2. Our calcs said we'd have to have the air go about twice as fast as our fan went but we decided to try it anyway. Our calcs were right.

[hzdbl5]

Levitating a ball is a pretty good trick. But can you balance a robot on its front bumper 3 feet off the ground?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39388