Second Generation Self Balancing Vehicle

Second generation improved self balancing vehicle

Jun 28, 2011

Mounting the Beast

When the power drivers were tested ("almost" without producing magic smoke during the tests), I went to buy the hardware.

I worked a little in the workshop of my friend Nicolás and a little more in my apartment, and before long I built a simple structure and started the first Tilto's tests:
At this point I faced the most difficult problem: The electric motors (donated by my new friend Gustavo) are previously owned and a little worn, and have too much backlash in the gears of the gear boxes. This produces a dead zone where the system has no control and provokes strong shocks that destabilize the entire unit.

I spent an entire week thinking and testing mechanical solutions, until one morning I woke up with a simple software based solution.

It worked pretty well, and I finally mounted the Tilto beast!

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