Ted Larson wrote :

> How about a self-balancing robot:
> http://www.tedlarson.com/robots/balancingbot.htm

Hey ! Now we are talking !
This is definitly something I could use.

Thanks !
Jan-Erik.

PS.
"www.tedlarson.com", well that's what I call a "personal website" ! :-)


>
> There are many pictures and videos at that link you can feel
> free to use.
> All the balancing on the larger robot is done using a
> PIC18F452, and on the
> smaller one it is a PIC18F252.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> - Ted
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan-Erik Soderholm [mailto:jan-erik.soderholm@TELIA.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:31 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: [PIC]: PIC "show cases" ?
>
>
> Hi.
> I am looking for a couple of "show cases" where a PIC was used in
> a fun and simple way. Two that comes to mind are Rob Hamerling's
> "Christmas Candles 2002" project and Herbert Graf's "CarMon" project
> (maybe not "entry level", but nice anyway...).
>
> Any other simple projects that comes to mind ? It's nice if
> there is some
> web page with a few images of the finished project that I could print
> on a OH film. Note, I'm not going to "use" the project as
> such, just show
> them as PIC examples.
>
> I'm going to talk for 12-20 min in a second grade technical
> school class,
> and try to get a couple of them to run a PIC-based project.
> The project
> will at the same time be an evaluation of using PICs (or rather
> microcontrolers in general) on this level.
>
> So the emphazis is on *what* you can do, not *how* you
> do it. None or just a few technical details. Nice/fun images
> are better then techincal details.
>
> Any ideas ?
> Best Regards !
> Jan-Erik.
>
>
>
> Jan-Erik Svderholm
> S:t Anna Data
> tel : +46 121 42161
> mob : +46 70 5241690
>
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Jan-Erik Svderholm
S:t Anna Data
tel : +46 121 42161
mob : +46 70 5241690

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