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Ball-balancing robot

Posted by Ryan on 8 March 2017

One of our customers, Jochen Alt, built a robot that balances on top of a ball by driving around on it with omni-wheels. Even better, he very thoroughly documented the project on GitHub! The robot uses a number of parts from Pololu including 37D mm metal gearmotors with encoders, stamped aluminum L-brackets for 37D mm metal gearmotors, and three VNH2SP30 motor driver carriers.

A good overview of the robot and the control system are on his Hackaday project page.

	VNH2SP30 Motor Driver Carrier MD01B
	Pololu Stamped Aluminum L-Bracket Pair for 37D mm Metal Gearmotors

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