Gyroscopic RC Ball
Hardware- 1 Devlogs
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It's a gyroscopically driven remote control ball!
RC Ball Devlog #1
The idea is to have a ball that internally contains a gyroscope mechanism and two motors in the middle of the ring of the gyroscope to drive the vehicle on two different axis’s, giving it the capability to simply start rolling in any direction without turning.
The two main things I have done so far are
1: Model the basic internals of the Ball and print out the basic prototype for the internals to give me a better view of what I was doing. I like how it turned out except that I got the size slightly wrong on the bearing mounting holes and the mount of the central weight to one of the motors.
2: I tried to get the electronics working with a HC-06 Bluetooth module and nano clone board that I was given a few years ago, but it seems that something is wrong with the Bluetooth module causing it to lose connection immediately upon connecting to a computer. I did get some code for the motors to work though!
It’ll probably be real slow, but if its cool that don’t matter to much!
