Thursday, September 18, 2008

Ball-bearing balancing


Here's a neat project... the folks at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (RETIS lab) of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa has a touchscreen platform that detects the position of a ball bearing. Two servo motors tilt the platform in order to keep the ball from rolling off.

[RETIS Lab via AI Robotics via BotJunkie via Electronics Lab via Make]

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Anonymous meridith said...

that is so cool.

September 20, 2008 2:14 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But what if you put two ball bearings on it?

September 25, 2008 7:56 PM  

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