The code is released under the GNU General Public License.
This is the code for the Balanduino, the Open Source Balancing robot.
To download the entire repository including all submodules run the following command in a terminal:
curl https://raw.github.com/TKJElectronics/Balanduino/master/download.sh | shTo use the Balanduino as a normal Arduino board you need to add the hardware add-on to the Arduino IDE.
See the Hardware Readme for more information.
The Balanduino hardware consist of an ATmega644A running at 8MHz.
A MPU-6050 3-axis accelerometer and gyroscope. The accelerometer and gyroscope readings are combined using the Kalman filter library: https://github.com/TKJElectronics/KalmanFilter.
USB Host support is implemented using the MAX3421E and the USB Host library: https://github.com/felis/USB_Host_Shield_2.0.
Two VNH5180 motor controller ICs is used to drive the two motors.
More information can be found at the Kickstarter description: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tkjelectronics/balanduino-balancing-robot-kit.
To control the robot you can use the following game controllers:
- Normal PS3 Dualshock controller
- PS3 Navigation controller
- PS3 Move controller
- Xbox 360 wireless controller
- Wiimote including support for the Motion Plus and Nunchuck extension
- Wii U Pro controller
It it also possible to control the robot and adjust the PID values and others variables using the following Android application:
Source: https://github.com/TKJElectronics/BalanduinoAndroidApp
Or by using the Processing application: https://github.com/TKJElectronics/BalanduinoProcessingApp.
A video for the Kickstarter presentation of the robot can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kQniPbg9zc.
A video filmed with a GoPro mounted on the robot can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFcnb_9anM.
For more information send us an email at [email protected].