The one year duration is coming to an end, but thinking back since I first started, I’ve been kept on down grading my scope of work. I’ve always wanted to learn and try more, but somehow my “demotivating and lazy” side always prevails. One year ago, the initial plan was something like this:
OK you might start scratching your head now… what the hell is this? Well, it is a single wheel balancing robot. When I say SINGLE WHEEL, the wheel is actually just a red rubber ball, and the robot is balancing on top of it, without dropping of course. Cool huh?
But now all I did is just an ordinary two wheeled balancing robot. You might ask what’s so different between this and mine? Well…
1) Mine doesn’t have wireless remote control to make it move around.
2) Mine got no Graphical User Interface (GUI) to analyze the robot performance and system parameters.
3) Mine got no sensor to detect obstacles.
4) Mine is done by much trial and error, which spent me most of the time doing unnecessary testing and reconstruction.
5) Mine is still not balancing perfectly.
6) And most importantly, mine got an extra wheel… which makes the whole thing from cool become totally UNCOOL.
Tomorrow will be the “judgment day”. There is nothing much I can do right now in less than 24 hours. I am prepared to accept any harsh comments from the panels.
Wish me luck…
take care pal!