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RS4 awesome raspberry pi self balancing bot
« on: May 22, 2014, 07:50:05 PM »
Hello all,

I've had a self balancing robot on my brain for a couple of years now. I recently started collecting parts and ideas and found this online.

http://youtu.be/O6XkH84JYjU

This robot fascinates me. Anyone know of others that are similar?

Bill
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Re: RS4 awesome raspberry pi self balancing bot
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2014, 11:18:52 AM »
Cool use of image recognition! Is that a pixiecam?

There was a self-balancing robot entered into the SparkFun AVC last year; you can see a little bit of it in the recap video.
You can see it at 1:27 and 1:40:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TRmu7fx_Xw
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Re: RS4 awesome raspberry pi self balancing bot
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2014, 01:59:11 PM »
No it's a pi cam. I guess he uses opencv.
More information about the bot is at http://letsmakerobots.com/node/38610.
I've not seen an inverted pendulum that uses stepper motors before.
I really like this bot.

Bill
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