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idoh on May 1, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Robot That Balances on a Ball

How long did it take your dad to build it? What type of expertise is needed?

grk on May 1, 2010 [–]

The vid I linked to is not my dad's. I think he got a segway-style 2 wheel robot to work. Took him about two months, but he doesn't have much spare time. The biggest problem was adjusting for inaccuracies in the measuring equipment.

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