Barely standing? LIES

[dknguyen]

"Barely standing" my ass. I didn't know it was possible to make one that could recover after it had gone horizontal or flipped through the air!

**broken link removed**

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Pretty impressive - mind you it's got plenty of processing power!.

 

[blueroomelectronics]

And it's a dsPIC4012

 

[Marks256]

Looks pretty cool!

 

[audioguru]

It knows which way is up.
After it crashed into something I think it spun its tires at full power to try to re-gain its balance as soon as possible.

 

[dknguyen]

All that is needed now is to make it so it can cart wheel at will.

 

[matk95]

wow thats cool perfect balance

 

[3v0]

I may have a case of robot envy..

 

[dknguyen]

Me too, but then I tell myself I like power more than control. Maybe somebday I'll give it a whirl.

 

[Salgat]

Haha, like a mini segway.

 

[whiz115]

what is that? has weight on it's back and never falls?

 

[Speakerguy]

I wonder, is the dsPIC necessary, or could you get away with this on an 18F?

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I wonder, is the dsPIC necessary, or could you get away with this on an 18F?

Try it and see?, I suspect the only place the dsPIC may be required is for extensive maths calculations?. Mechanically a 16F would be much more than fast enough, never mind an 18F - I would expect either to be easily capable of a 'similar' performance, but probably not as outstanding as that one.

 

[Leftyretro]

Yes very cool. However it wasn't apparent to me that it has a mode to operate like a normal 4 wheel drive car with all four wheels down and able to steer and go forward and reverse?

Lefty

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Yes very cool. However it wasn't apparent to me that it has a mode to operate like a normal 4 wheel drive car with all four wheels down and able to steer and go forward and reverse?

Why would you want it to?, that's what the original model did.

 

[audioguru]

Maybe it has 4 wheels so it can climb stairs head-over-heels.

 

[Hero999]

It can probab;y do that too. Now what would be cool if they could make it so it drives like a normal car then flips up on to one end at the push of a button.

 

[Speakerguy]

Try it and see?, I suspect the only place the dsPIC may be required is for extensive maths calculations?.

XMACs I assume would be waaay faster on the dsPIC, especially with 16-bit data. The thought of trying it with an 8-bit is interesting, but I myself would have to start yet another hobby (robotics) to find out