[Trandi] can inspect ‘build a self-balancing robot’ off of his to-do list. Over a couple of weekends, he developed stated robot, and, in his own words, handled not to over-design it. It even kept the interest of his 2-year-old kid for a number of minutes, as well as that’s always a plus.
He was originally going to re-purpose one of his son’s RC cars, however didn’t want to danger breaking it. Instead, he created a triangular 3-D printed chassis to hold a motor as well as some cogs to in shape both the motor shaft as well as some re-used Meccano wheels. [Trandi]’s style employs an MPU 6050 6-DOF IMU for the balancing act as well as is developed on an Arduino Nano clone.
[Trandi] is controlling the motor with an L293D, which has built-in flyback diodes to lessen spikes. He discovered that the Nano clone was not powerful sufficient to manage everything, so he added an L7805CV voltage regulator. After the break, enjoy [Trandi]’s adorable bot tool around on different kinds of terrain, with as well as without a payload.
Don’t have an IMU lying around? You don’t truly requirement one to develop a self-balancing bot, as this IR-based lilliputian bot will demonstrate.
[via hazardous Prototypes]