Bcc's: Rod should see unicycle - may even inspire him.
Any other Bccs copies coz I think you may like it.

> Very cool stuff. I'm going to take a stab at a balancing robot, I think.

For maximum cheating and 2nd fastest path to success, use BIG wheels,
battery pack heavier than the rest of the swinging weight and mount
the battery pack low and below the axle. Has the advantage of taking
"minimal" energy to self balance :-).

For fastest path to success, the following may inform your decision
making process:

Meta 2 wheels ride-on self-balancing open source Segway imitator
Even has a video of Linus Torvalds riding it :-)
AVR based.

    http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/meta/
    http://www.gizmag.com/diy-segway/10939/

Based on Trevor Blackwell's impressive design (and code)

         http://www.tlb.org/scooter.html

TB's self balancing unicycle

       http://www.tlb.org/eunicycle.html

Others, less complete and/or impressive.

    http://www.segwii.com/

    http://www.mtoussaint.de/tobb/index.html

Somewhere en-web I've seen an inline self balancing two wheeler.
Shifts its battery packs to maintain side-to-side balance :-)


       Russell


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