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Welcome to the PendelBot documentation!

PendelBot is my contribution to the Robot Challenge 2014 contest: "Hack the Arduino Robot".

From their web page:

This year RobotChallenge in cooperation with Arduino and RS Components presents a new open source competition - "Hack the Arduino Robot!". To apply for this competition you need to submit a short description of your project idea (up to 120 words) until the 26th of January responding to the following questions:

What would you do with an Arduino Robot? What makes your idea special? What real life problem does your robot solve?

This was the text which I sent to Robot Challenge (the 120-word-limit was really tough!):

"The PendelBot has oversized wheels (diameter ~30-40cm), so that the Robot in between them acts as a pendulum. A battery pack underneath the motor board ensures that the center of weight is extentric. When the motors accelerate the wheels, the torque turns the chassis in the opposite direction. An acceleration sensor will limit the angle of the chassis to 90°. The robot can be remotely controlled via bluetooth by an app on an android device. This app uses yaw and pitch angles of the device to control the robots speed and direction. This setup can work as pendulum or inverted pendulum (thus posing as a mini segway(c))."

And it was selected by the jury as one of ten finalists!

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