Meet Cubli, a motorized box that balances perfectly on ONE CORNER
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So, unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past decade, you'll have heard of the Segway self-balancing scooter-thinga-mabobs. A number of you will have even had a go at making a self-balancing robot with a micro-controller and some inertia sensors any gyros. It's quite neat. Not spectacularly complicated, mathematically speaking, but still an impressive thing to witness. It is however, a 1D effect - it's only self-balancing forward/backward. It's also rather large, though diy robots can be fairly small. Today I saw a video of 3 such systems integrated into a cube 15cm along each side - 1 system per axis. The result is a cube that can 'walk' along surfaces or as the title says, balance on a single corner - after 'standing-up' from a rest-position of sitting on one of it's faces. If a picture speaks a 1000 words, watch the video for a million of them. http://io9.com/meet-cubli-the-remarkable-balancing-box-1487322476[^]
I want one!!!
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature"> <first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last> </sig>
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I want one!!!
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature"> <first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last> </sig>
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So, unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past decade, you'll have heard of the Segway self-balancing scooter-thinga-mabobs. A number of you will have even had a go at making a self-balancing robot with a micro-controller and some inertia sensors any gyros. It's quite neat. Not spectacularly complicated, mathematically speaking, but still an impressive thing to witness. It is however, a 1D effect - it's only self-balancing forward/backward. It's also rather large, though diy robots can be fairly small. Today I saw a video of 3 such systems integrated into a cube 15cm along each side - 1 system per axis. The result is a cube that can 'walk' along surfaces or as the title says, balance on a single corner - after 'standing-up' from a rest-position of sitting on one of it's faces. If a picture speaks a 1000 words, watch the video for a million of them. http://io9.com/meet-cubli-the-remarkable-balancing-box-1487322476[^]
Pretty amazing little device. :thumbsup:
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Relax...We're all crazy it's not a competition!
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Pretty amazing little device. :thumbsup:
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Relax...We're all crazy it's not a competition!
Thought you'd enjoy it Mike, I immediately thought of you when I saw it and made mention of diy self-balancing robots. Love to know if they're high or low Kv motors, outrunner/inrunner types, Sensored/non-sensored, geared/direct-drive etc, etc, etc. Reckon there may even be under $100 of hardware in it.. Given the relative rapidity that we've seen diy quad-copters made almost a commodity item ($18 minus TX is the cheapest I've seen), and the increasing sophistication with which swarms of quads are controlled, I really can't wait to see some of these teaming-up together. Looking forward to more of your articles on the Rover project you've got going on. :)
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So, unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past decade, you'll have heard of the Segway self-balancing scooter-thinga-mabobs. A number of you will have even had a go at making a self-balancing robot with a micro-controller and some inertia sensors any gyros. It's quite neat. Not spectacularly complicated, mathematically speaking, but still an impressive thing to witness. It is however, a 1D effect - it's only self-balancing forward/backward. It's also rather large, though diy robots can be fairly small. Today I saw a video of 3 such systems integrated into a cube 15cm along each side - 1 system per axis. The result is a cube that can 'walk' along surfaces or as the title says, balance on a single corner - after 'standing-up' from a rest-position of sitting on one of it's faces. If a picture speaks a 1000 words, watch the video for a million of them. http://io9.com/meet-cubli-the-remarkable-balancing-box-1487322476[^]
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Thought you'd enjoy it Mike, I immediately thought of you when I saw it and made mention of diy self-balancing robots. Love to know if they're high or low Kv motors, outrunner/inrunner types, Sensored/non-sensored, geared/direct-drive etc, etc, etc. Reckon there may even be under $100 of hardware in it.. Given the relative rapidity that we've seen diy quad-copters made almost a commodity item ($18 minus TX is the cheapest I've seen), and the increasing sophistication with which swarms of quads are controlled, I really can't wait to see some of these teaming-up together. Looking forward to more of your articles on the Rover project you've got going on. :)
enhzflep wrote:
Thought you'd enjoy it Mike, I immediately thought of you when I saw it and made mention of diy self-balancing robots.
Thanks, yeah I'm very interested in devices controlled by uProcessors.
enhzflep wrote:
Looking forward to more of your articles on the Rover project you've got going on.
I got the motors wired up the other day and programmed it to move forward and back just to see it move but got way layed on a remodeling job here at the house. The remodeling is just about done and will be writing Part 2 soon. I'm also learning Python and Linux because I want to step up my embedded programming up a notch using a Raspberry Pi or Beagle Black Bone, haven't decided yet. I'm very bad about getting side tracked (ADD and all) and I'm interested in so many things it's hard for me to stay focused on one thing for long.
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Relax...We're all crazy it's not a competition!
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enhzflep wrote:
Thought you'd enjoy it Mike, I immediately thought of you when I saw it and made mention of diy self-balancing robots.
Thanks, yeah I'm very interested in devices controlled by uProcessors.
enhzflep wrote:
Looking forward to more of your articles on the Rover project you've got going on.
I got the motors wired up the other day and programmed it to move forward and back just to see it move but got way layed on a remodeling job here at the house. The remodeling is just about done and will be writing Part 2 soon. I'm also learning Python and Linux because I want to step up my embedded programming up a notch using a Raspberry Pi or Beagle Black Bone, haven't decided yet. I'm very bad about getting side tracked (ADD and all) and I'm interested in so many things it's hard for me to stay focused on one thing for long.
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Relax...We're all crazy it's not a competition!
Looks at the box with a rasPi, bread-boarded arduino projects and various (unused) ESCs, motors, LiPos, plane plans and components etc and :laughs: Probly a good thing I didn't grab a Cox 0.049 yet.. :-\ Yup, know just how that one goes. "Life is the series of events that happens when we're busy planning something else" is a quote that comes to mind.. Not sure which of the two I'd buy just now if I didn't have the Pi. Probably still it, since it can do hardware encode/decode of 1920x1080 h264 video in real-time. Though for general purpose i/o, I'd likely go with a BBB.
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I wonder if there is cake?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Looks at the box with a rasPi, bread-boarded arduino projects and various (unused) ESCs, motors, LiPos, plane plans and components etc and :laughs: Probly a good thing I didn't grab a Cox 0.049 yet.. :-\ Yup, know just how that one goes. "Life is the series of events that happens when we're busy planning something else" is a quote that comes to mind.. Not sure which of the two I'd buy just now if I didn't have the Pi. Probably still it, since it can do hardware encode/decode of 1920x1080 h264 video in real-time. Though for general purpose i/o, I'd likely go with a BBB.
enhzflep wrote:
Not sure which of the two I'd buy just now if I didn't have the Pi. Probably still it, since it can do hardware encode/decode of 1920x1080 h264 video in real-time. Though for general purpose i/o, I'd likely go with a BBB.
I really like the BBB but the community support, number and types of capes, projects, etc. doesn't seem to be as numerous. And the fact that the OS is installed in memory instead of on a CD card is a bonus.
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Relax...We're all crazy it's not a competition!
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I guess it depends on how many girls were working on the project. At my last job in an office full of them, hardly a week went by when there wasn't a cake-break for one reason or another. I miss that job - I miss the work there too. :-\
I was making a very unobvious reference to the Game Portal with the cube and the presence or absence of cake ;) I currently work in the Biotech industry and the majority of my colleagues are young women (trying not to to rub my knees a la Vic Reeves when I say that). We also have cake every other day and a cake cooking competition each year, which involves around 70 cakes being cooked and consumed in the space of a month.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
