I previously built a balancing robot, but it had tracks based on a Rotaped design. These types of tracks were used on old tractors and were a bit like a caterpillar track, but with less segments. The drive wheel is a sprocket which fits into the Rotaped track segments at the top and bottom, and the tracks themselves are held in place by chains, or in my case some bungee cord tied in two triangle shapes.
The Roataped tractors had normal front wheels to steer, but in my case I tried to make the Rotaped tracks into a two-wheel balancing robot. The idea was to make a balancing robot which could climb over obstacles. This worked ok, and it was pretty good at driving over things, but I found that making it balance properly was pretty hard because it wasn’t as free moving as it would have been with normal wheels, and also the sprockets settled into the tracks at certain points which meant that the response wasn’t linear.
So in this video I’m going to rebuild that robot, and try out a few experiments I’ve been meani
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