DIY: Balancing Robot

Here’s a great project to work on if your just getting into robots. The self-balancing robot doesn’t use any fancy accelerometers or gyroscopes, all you really need is a motor and some gears (with a few additional items you might have around the workshop).

This is a very simple robot that uses a simple switch as a sensor and stands on only two wheels with inverted pendulum mechanism. When the robot is going to fall the motor starts and moves the robot to the direction it is going to fall, so the motor torque about the center of gravity that is higher than the motor makes the robot balanced.

Link to building a Simple Balancing Robot

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