slicedbread1
- Oct 18, 2015
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Seems to be for detecting the position of the pendulum.
Hard to imagine a more impressive undergraduate school project. And the young man nailed it, both theoretically as well as practically. I hadn't thought of re-purposing a printer to serve as the carriage under the inverted pendulum..
Damn . . . . this could only have been more impressive . . . . if using a 10 ft pole. ...
You have seen it. It is called the Segway.. It would be velllly interesting to see a two-axis cart rigged with a control system that can do the same thing.
would love someone to try the following....
Take a radio-controlled car and glue its controller on top of the car. Now extend the joystick of the controller by 3'.
And viola! It might balance that extended joystick as in the above demonstration. If the joystick fell forward, the car would move forward to balance it again. If the extended joystick fell backwards, the car would move backwards and balance that again.