A scalable board to prototype motion control applications for automatic balanced robot or any other robot on wheels. It was the 2013 when we presented a control board to make a clone of the famous SegWay: the OpenWheels project. In recent years, the focus on systems to stabilize unstable ones grew up sensibly….
Everybody loves a visit to the zoo. And for a kid it can be an especially magical experience. But if you’re hospitalised, a trip out is easier said than done. For some children, it’s simply impossible. The ambitious Robots for Good project, an initiative by London based Wevolver, is going to change this. Giving hospitalized…
The series of posts devoted to the OpenWheels platform continues with the description of the processes related to the verification and management of the data collected from the sensors through a dedicated telemetry software . At this point in the project, OpenWheels board is widely tested and ready to work with its firmware. It…
During the months spent developing OpenWheels, we worked hard to achieve a firmware that was both functional and fast. We used float type variables only when it was strictly necessary and we implemented a system interrupt to manage, with the right timing, the stabilization operations. We did not skimp on protection systems and diagnostic messaging…
Here comes the third post regarding our amazing OpenWheels: the Segway inspired open source and DIY two-wheels vehicle. For those who stumble upon this post for the first time, please check the launch here and the whole list here: https://oe2.open-electronics.org/tag/openwheels/ With this post we get more into the specifics of Openwheels and we’ll talk extensively about the electronics…
[youtube id=”WMfVr5Jlt_E” width=”620″ height=”360″] Openwheels is fun! See me (Boris Landoni) happily driving the OpenWheels at Rome Maker Faire 2013 Here comes the second post regarding our amazing OpenWheels: the Segway inspired open source and DIY two-wheels vehicle. For those who stumble upon this post for the first time, please check the launch post here….
(This is the second post of the OpenWheels series. See all the posts by clicking here) As you may know, the invention of the SegWay is due to Mr. Dean Kamen who, noting the difficulties faced by a man in a wheelchair in just climbing a sidewalk, spotted the possibility of a vehicle that…
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