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Ball Balancing Touchscreen
Posted by admin on September 16th, 2008
This isn’t exactly a robot, but it is a neat little adaptive feedback system developed by the Real Time Systems Laboratory at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy that takes all of those silly little tilty-ball games that you can get for your iPhone and brings them into the physical world:
A touchscreen senses the position of the ball and sends signals to x and y axis servos to keep the ball in the center of the screen. I have no idea what (software-wise) is doing the number crunching, but it’s quick enough to adapt to some fairly aggressive motions. Whether or not it (in of itself) is useful is debatable, but it sure is neat.
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September 17th, 2008 at 10:44 am
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September 19th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Hey guys the engineer that participated to this project responded to all the questions that reddit users made:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6zzvm/ball_control_on_a_touch_screen_using_a_microchip/?already_submitted=true
He responded here:
http://dev.emcelettronica.com/ball-control-touch-screen-using-microchip-microcontroller – PJ is his username
November 16th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
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